Ruth Rendell
Put on by Cunning
Sir Manuel Carmargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead. Misadventure: an old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into the water to be trapped...
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The Keys to the Street
Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn’t know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair. For him, it was as...
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The Secret House of Death
Reader: Simon Russell Beale
It was his third visit to the gloomy house on Orchard Drive. Each time, he parked in the same place. Each time, he carried a briefcase. And each time, Louise North greeted him at the door......
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The Face of Trespass
Reader: Ric Jerrom
Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived in a near derelict cottage with only his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the rich, unstable...
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To Fear a Painted Devil
Reader: Brian Cox
Gossip in tiny Linchester is raised to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the night of his beautiful wife's birthday party. The whole neighbourhood was there, witness to the horrible...
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Not in the Flesh
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury – a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped...
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From Doon with Death
The First Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery.
Love and death – the only two sensational things that had ever happened to Margaret Parsons. The police knew all about her life and, by...£11.83 £21.50
End in Tears
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a small stone bridge over a quiet road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while...It is impossible for Chief...
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The Vault
Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes...
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One Across, Two Down
Reader: Nicky Henson
There are only two things in life that interest Stanley - solving crossword puzzles, and getting his hands on his mother-in-law’s money. For twenty years, the puzzles have been his only...
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Simisola
Only 18 black people live in Kingsmarkham. One is Wexford’s new doctor. When the doctor’s daughter goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than a mere professional interest in the case,...
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A Guilty Thing Surprised
The Nightingales were always a very happy couple. But someone had reason to quarrel with Elizabeth. Someone who was alone with her in the woods on a dark September night. Someone who loved or...
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Harm Done
On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her family had already begun to search for her body. She had been missing for three days. A short while later, another young woman...
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The Copper Peacock & Other Stories
With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Ruth Rendell indicates hidden depths in ordinary events and creates a sense of profound unease. The stories are: 'A Pair of Yellow Lilies',...
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Live Flesh
All his life, for almost as far back as he could remember, Victor had had a phobia. In prison, inevitably, he reflected on the grotesque way it had begun, about the panics and violent anger. He...
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A Demon in My View
In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a palely beautiful woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her. Two men rent flats in the...
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Thirteen Steps Down
Mix Cellini (which he pronounces with an ‘S’ rather than a ‘C’) is superstitious about the number thirteen and has always felt dogged by ill-luck. In the house where he lives, there are...
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Vanity Dies Hard
Who would have believed that Alice Whittaker’s life could change? She was thirty-seven, rich but dowdy, with no career. Her life was a lonely failure, though she had got by with the one thing...
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The Rottweiler
Reader: Nigel Anthony
The latest victim in a series of apparently motiveless murders is found near Inez Ferry’s antique shop in Marylebone. Someone saw a shadowy figure running away, but the only other clues are that...
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The Saint Zita Society
Reader: Carole Boyd
Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street inhabited by the rich, and serviced by the not so rich. The hired help, a motley assortment of...
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The Bridesmaid
Philip Wardman had more than just the ordinary squeamishness where death was concerned. Yet he could hardly avoid the suspicious disappearance of his sister's friend Rebecca Neave, especially when...
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A Sleeping Life
The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam. But that must...
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The Monster in the Box
Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk.Years earlier, when...
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Going Wrong
Reader: Dermot Crowley
The dark, good-looking Guy is from a council flat. Leonora has a mews house in Holland Park, and her mother doesn't care for Guy - or the way he makes his money. His obsession with Leonora...
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Road Rage
The building of a new road through rural habitats was certain to divide the local community. It didn’t take long for the environmental groups to arrive. Even the badgers had to be moved. And it...
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