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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 ]
It also commented on the "often-dated feminist themes". Ruth Rendell later reported in an interview with Anthea Davey for Red Pepper that she had "had a go at dotty militant feminism" in An Unkindness of Ravens and as a result "I was described by one women's magazine as the greatest anti-feminist since Dashiell Hammett". [2]
The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. [1] It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: "Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness. Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend".
Means of Evil is a collection of short stories by British writer Ruth Rendell. Contents. The collection contains five stories, all featuring Wexford: [1]
The explosive climax for these reluctantly and fatally entangled characters is bleak indeed. Ruth Rendell brilliantly offsets the soul-destroying, humdrum life of ordinary people lacking imagination or aspiration, against the perilous world of the fantasist, denying reality or struggling to escape into an imagined life.
A Spot of Folly is a collection of short stories by English writer Ruth Rendell. [1] Subtitled "Ten And A Quarter New Tales Of Murder and Mayhem" the collection was published in 2017, two years after Rendell's death. [2]
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.
A Sleeping Life is a crime-novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1978. It features her popular investigator Detective Inspector Wexford , and is the tenth novel in the series. A Sleeping Life was a finalist for the 1979 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel . [ 1 ]