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RUTH RENDELL has won numerous awards, including three Edgars, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as three Gold Daggers, a Silver Dagger, and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writer’s Association. A member of the House of Lords, she lives in London. |
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British | 978-0-307-38878-0 (0-307-38878-6) | June 2009 | $ 15.00
After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage among the eighty-five people who have disappeared over the past decade in... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural | 978-0-307-38801-8 (0-307-38801-8) | August 2008 | $ 13.95
When Ismay and Heather's stepfather was discovered dead in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded the drowning was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have had something to do with it. Now they're older and their lives seem to be moving happily forward. But... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Psychological | 978-0-307-27723-7 (0-307-27723-2) | June 2007 | $ 13.95
The first death could have been an accident.
When Mavis Ambrose is killed by a falling chunk of concrete, the police have no reason to suspect mischief. However, the bludgeoning of the young and gorgeous Amber Marshalson that follows is clearly murder. In the midst of the hottest summer on record... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-9590-2 (1-4000-9590-5) | June 2006 | $ 13.00
Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix’s... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-1-4000-9588-9 (1-4000-9588-3) | September 2005 | $ 13.95
The first victim had bite marks on her neck so the London papers nicknamed her killer, “the Rottweiler.” He has been stalking the small and diverse London community of Lisson Grove, where Inez Ferry runs an antique shop frequented by a motley collection of eccentric individuals. When the Rottweiler’s trinkets start... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British | 978-1-4000-3419-2 (1-4000-3419-1) | October 2004 | $ 13.00
With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British | 978-1-4000-3118-4 (1-4000-3118-4) | January 2003 | $ 13.95
Minty’s boyfriend, Jock, was killed in the disastrous train wreck at Paddington, shortly after he borrowed all her savings. Now he has come back to haunt her. Zillah lost her estranged husband, Jerry, in that same accident. She is not convinced he is actually dead, but for reasons of her own... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Short Stories (single author) | 978-0-375-72759-7 (0-375-72759-0) | December 2002 | $ 12.00
Nine deliciously frightening and exquisitely crafted tales of psychological terror from Ruth Rendell.
A self-appointed critic reads books only to catch out their errors of fact and usage, which he points out to their authors in vicious letters: Then one day he comes upon a book that attacks him. An elderly woman... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural | 978-0-375-70492-5 (0-375-70492-2) | January 2001 | $ 11.00
A stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his fianc??s double in a public park of ill repute. An executive visits the secluded home of a former employee whose intentions are frightfully unclear. A modest soul weds the woman he rescues from... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural | 978-0-375-70497-0 (0-375-70497-3) | January 2001 | $ 12.95
Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70494-9 (0-375-70494-9) | January 2001 | $ 12.00
Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. For she lives with them now--and she will stop at nothing to tear his marriage apart. One afternoon, Stanley lends... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-72484-8 (0-375-72484-2) | October 2000 | $ 14.00
The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town.
Behind the picture-postcard façade of Kingsmarkham lies a community rife with violence, betrayal, and a taste for vengeance. When sixteen-year-old Lizzie Cromwell reappears no one knows where she has been, including Lizzie herself. Inspector Wexford thinks she was with a... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70495-6 (0-375-70495-7) | July 2000 | $ 12.95
The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled.
According to all accounts, Angela Hathall was deeply in love with her husband and far too paranoid to invite an unknown person into their home. So who managed to gain entry and strangle her without a struggle? That is the... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70493-2 (0-375-70493-0) | July 2000 | $ 12.95
Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life.
In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70491-8 (0-375-70491-4) | January 2000 | $ 12.95
She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to the cellar, and she is gone . . .
In A Demon in My View, Ruth Rendell creates a character as frightening as he is fascinating. Mild-mannered Arthur Johnson has never known... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70496-3 (0-375-70496-5) | January 2000 | $ 13.00
"A classic."--The London Times
What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre?
On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70488-8 (0-375-70488-4) | March 1999 | $ 14.95
A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70489-5 (0-375-70489-2) | March 1999 | $ 12.95
What kind of a person would kidnap two children?
That is the question that haunts Wexford when a five-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham. When a child's body turns up at an abandoned country home one search turns into a murder investigation and the other turns... Read More
Trade Paperback | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction - Mystery & Detective | 978-0-375-70490-1 (0-375-70490-6) | March 1999 | $ 12.95
A mutilated body found at a rock festival.
In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a... Read More