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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries is a British television crime drama series, produced by TVS and later by its successor Meridian Broadcasting, in association with Blue Heaven Productions, for broadcast on the ITV network. Twelve series were broadcast on ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
The Inspector Wexford series was successfully televised, starring George Baker as Inspector Wexford and Christopher Ravenscroft as Detective Mike Burden, under the title The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, with 48 episodes from 1987 to 2000. Rendell praised Baker's performance, stating "It was a marvellous achievement as an actor to make him more and ...
The Wexford series of novels are set in "Kingsmarkham", a fictional town in Sussex. [2] Kingsmarkham has been reported as "inspired by Midhurst in West Sussex". [3]Rendell says that Kingsmarkham "is not romantic at all, (with) ugly modern buildings, huge supermarkets, open car lots and bus garages, and sprawling blocks of local authority housing with the police station a concrete box of tricks ...
Murder in Provence is a television mystery drama series based on the Verlacque and Bonnet detective novels by M. L. Longworth.. A U.S. and U.K. co-production between BritBox and ITV, the plans for adaptation were announced in 2021 [1] and the first of three feature-length episodes became available on streaming services in March 2022.
It is the 11th in the series. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet , Act V Scene II: " How these things came about: so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors ...
Vanity Dies Hard is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 1966 by John Long Ltd in the UK [1] and in the same year as In Sickness and in Health by Doubleday in the US. [2] In a later interview, the author said that it was at the very bottom of the list of "my worst books". [ 3 ]
Some Lie And Some Die is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1973. It is the 8th entry in her popular Inspector Wexford series. The book was adapted in 1990 into a TV movie starring Peter Capaldi .
No Man's Nightingale is a novel by crime writer Ruth Rendell published in 2013, [1] [2] It featuring her recurring protagonist Inspector Wexford.The novel is the second in which Wexford has appeared after his retirement, and on this occasion is called in to consult on a crime by his ex-colleague and friend Mike Burden.