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Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. [ 1 ] Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford . [ 2 ]
Ruth Rendell, 85, English crime novelist (Inspector Wexford), stroke. [ 38 ] Bob Schmidt , 82, American baseball player ( San Francisco Giants , Washington Senators , Cincinnati Reds ).
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.
George Baker, 80, British actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), pneumonia following a stroke. [82] Frederick Cardozo, 94, British soldier and SOE veteran. [83] Fernando Charrier, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alessandria della Paglia (1989–2007). [84] Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, 95, Puerto Rican major general. [85]
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 ]
Going Wrong is a psychological thriller by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The novel was published in 1990 by Hutchinson in the UK [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and Mysterious Press in the US.
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter is a 1992 novel [1] by the British mystery writer Ruth Rendell, featuring the recurring character Inspector Reg Wexford. [2] The title of the book refers to historical corporal punishment in the Royal Navy where a sailor kissing the gunner's daughter was lashed to a cannon to receive a flogging.
A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. [1] The novel won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in that year and, in 1987, was also shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award to select the best Gold Dagger winner of the award's 50-year history.