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Ruth Rendell

(1930 - )
aka
Barbara Vine

About Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell is the author of Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird. She is the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. She is also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain's Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Ruth Rendell also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark Adapted Eye is the most famous. She lives in England.

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Series

Chief Inspector Wexford
1. From Doon with Death (1964)
2. Sins of the Fathers (1967)
aka A New Lease of Death
3. Wolf to the Slaughter (1967)
4. The Best Man to Die (1969)
5. A Guilty Thing Surprised (1970)
6. No More Dying Then (1971)
7. Murder Being Once Done (1972)
8. Some Lie and Some Die (1973)
9. Shake Hands Forever (1975)
10. A Sleeping Life (1978)
11. Put On By Cunning (1981)
aka Death Notes
12. The Speaker of Mandarin (1983)
13. An Unkindness of Ravens (1985)
14. The Veiled One (1988)
15. Kissing the Gunners Daughter (1992)
16. Simisola (1994)
17. Road Rage (1997)
18. Harm Done (1998)
19. The Babes in the Wood (2002)
20. End in Tears (2005)
21. Not in the Flesh (2007)
22. The Monster in the Box (2009)
Means of Evil: And Other Stories (1979)
Put on by Cunning / Unkindness of Ravens (omnibus) (2007)

Novels

Omnibus

The Second Wexford Omnibus (1988)
The Third Wexford Omnibus (1989)
The Fourth Wexford Omnibus (1990)
Ruth Rendell Omnibus (1992)
Ruth Rendell Omnibus Vol 2 (1993)
The Second Ruth Rendell Omnibus (1994)
Omnibus Fiction (1994)
Sixth Wexford Omnibus (2002)
Lake of Darkness / Veiled One (2007)

Collections

Chapbooks

The Strawberry Tree (1995)

Novellas

The Thief (2006)

Anthologies edited

The Reason Why: An Anthology of the Murderous Mind (1995)

Non fiction

Undermining the Central Line (1989) (with Colin Ward)
Ruth Rendell's Suffolk (1992)

Anthologies containing stories by Ruth Rendell

Short stories

	The Venus Fly Trap (1972)
	A Bad Heart (1973)
	The Clinging Woman (1974)
	The Fallen Curtain (1974)
	Almost Human (1975)
	The Double (1975)
	The Fall of a Coin (1975)
	Divided We Stand (1976)
	People Don't Do Such things (1976)
	The Vinegar Mother (1976)
	You Can't Be Too Careful (1976)
	A Glowing Future (1977)
	The Haunting of Shawley Rectory (1979)
	The Dreadful Day of Judgment (1982)
	Loopy (1982)
	The New Girlfriend (1985)
	For Dear Life (1991)
	Long Live The Queen (1991)
	A Pair Of Yellow Lilies (1993)
	The Astronomical Scarf (1996)
	Computer Seance (1997)
	The Fallen Curtain (1997)
	The Brimstone Wedding Clothes (1998)
	Unacceptable Levels (1998)
	Bribery and Corruption
	The Convolvulus Clock
	A Dark Blue Perfume
	Father's Day
	Fen Hall
	The Green Road to Quephanda
	Hare's House
	The Orchard Walls
	An Outside Interest
	The Whistler

Awards

	Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1986) : An Unkindness of Ravens
	Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1986) : The Tree of Hands

Books about Ruth Rendell

From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell (2000) by Susan Rowland

Ruth Rendell recommends

A Helping Hand (1966) Celia Dale "Celia Dale's writing is quiet, clever, subtle - and terrifying. I can't think of anyone whose stories of suspense I appreciate more."	A Cold Mind (1983) (Stuart Haydon) David Lindsey "It enthralled me...A Cold Mind stands alone, it is entirely original."	The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple (1986) Julian Symons "Superlative... A master at the top of his form."
Writing a Thriller (1986) André Jute "A private godsend."	The Mysteries of Algiers (1988) Robert Irwin "Magical, bizarre and frightening."	The Playroom (1991) Frances Hegarty (Frances Fyfield) "Wholly believable... frighteningly real."
Wilderness (1991) Dennis Danvers "A remarkable book...sensuous and erotic, compelling and deeply serious."	The Safety of Objects (1991) A M Homes "Remarkable... awesomely well-written. Here are all the things that even in our frank, outspoken times we don't talk about. We think of them punishingly in our sleepless nights."	There Was an Old Woman (1993) (Benny Cooperman, book 8) Howard Engel "Mr. Engel is a born writer, a natural stylist.... This is a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines."
The Last Girl (1995) Penelope Evans "Tension holds the reader in page-turning compulsion and never flags till the last word has been read."	A Hand at the Shutter (1996) Francis King "No one writes better prose than Francis King."	Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2001) Helen Simpson "A collection that includes some of the most sensitive, insightful and finely-crafted stories I have ever read."
Rumours of a Hurricane (2002) Tim Lott "Very clever, very funny. If it fails to win a big prize there is no justice in the world."	Have You Seen Dawn? (2003) Steven Saylor "Saylor's scholarship is breathtaking and his writing enthralls."	The Ghost Writer (2004) John Harwood "Its complexities provoke a feverish breathlessness...Well written and subtly constructed."
Memory Book (2005) (Benny Cooperman, book 11) Howard Engel "Mr. Engel is a born writer, a natural stylist... this is a writer who can bring a character to life in a few lines."	The Pure in Heart (2005) (Simon Serrailler, book 2) Susan Hill "Not all great novelists can write crime crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does it the result is stunning."	My Perfect Silence (2006) Penelope Evans "Remarkable... Tension holds the reader in page-turning compulsion and never flags until the last word has been read."
A Secret Inheritance (2007) Elizabeth Lord "Elizabeth Lord is a natural storyteller."	Divas Don't Knit (2007) (Jo Mackenzie, book 1) Gil McNeil "Funny and sparkling--a profoundly moving study of motherhood and true love."	Dead On Time (2009) Meghnad Desai "Exciting and unputdownable."

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