Who is Author Ruth Rendell

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Ruth Rendell: "The Queen of Crime"

I am a big fan the British mystery writer Ruth Rendell. She has captured three major Edgar Awards-one for the novel A Dark Adapted Eye (1987) and for two short stories-The Fallen Curtain (1975) and The New Girl Friend (1984). In addition to these major literary distinctions, Rendell has also earned a variety of additional awards for her volume of quality work.

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"I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do."-Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell Bibliography

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Novels

To Fear A Painted Devil (1965)
Vanity Dies Hard (1965)
The Secret House of Death (1968)
One Across, Two Down (1971)
The Face of Trespass (1974)
A Demon in My View (1976)
A Judgement In Stone (1977)
Make Death Love Me (1979)
The Lake of Darkness (1980)
Master of the Moor (1982)
The Killing Doll (1984)
The Tree of Hands (1984)
Live Flesh (1986)
Talking to Strange Men (1987)
The Bridesmaid (1989)
Going Wrong (1990)
The Crocodile Bird (1993)
The Keys to the Street (1996)
A Sight for Sore Eyes (1998)
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (2001)
The Rottweiler (2003)
Thirteen Steps Down (2004)
The Water's Lovely (2006)
Portobello (2008)
Tigerlily's Orchids (2010)

Inspector Wexford series

From Doon With Death (1964)
Wolf to the Slaughter (1967)
A New Lease of Death (1969)(Renamed Sins of the Fathers)
The Best Man to Die (1969)
A Guilty Thing Surprised (1970)
No More Dying Then (1971)
Murder Being Once Done (1972)
Some Lie And Some Die (1973)
Shake Hands Forever (1975)
A Sleeping Life (1979)
Put on By Cunning (1981)
The Speaker of Mandarin (1983)
An Unkindness of Ravens (1985)
The Veiled One (1988)
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (1992)
Simisola (1994)
Road Rage (1997)
Harm Done (1999)
The Babes in the Wood (2002)
End in Tears (2005)
Not in the Flesh (2007)
The Monster in the Box (2009)


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A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986)
A Fatal Inversion (1987)
The House of Stairs (1988)
Gallowglass (1990)
King Solomon's Carpet (1991)
Asta's Book (1993)
No Night is Too Long (1994)
The Brimstone Wedding (1995)
The Chimney-sweeper's Boy (1998)
Grasshopper (2000)
The Blood Doctor (2002)
The Minotaur (2005)
The Birthday Present (2008)

Novellas

Heartstones (1987)
The Thief (2006)

Short story collections

The Fallen Curtain (1976)
Means of Evil (1979) (five Inspector Wexford stories)
The Fever Tree (1982)
The New Girlfriend (1985)
The Copper Peacock (1991)
Blood Lines (1995)
Piranha to Scurfy (2000)
Collected Short Stories, Volume 1 (2006)
Collected Short Stories, Volume 2 (2008)

Have Thoughts on Ruth Rendell?

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  • GrowWear Jun 22, 2009 @ 10:10 pm | delete
    She's in a class by herself.
  • chemrat Oct 25, 2008 @ 12:17 pm | delete
    Good choice for a lens! I've read a bunch of these. Lensrolled at my group and lens on crime fiction. Best wishes and thanks for joining the group. Jim
  • LaraineRose Jul 27, 2008 @ 12:58 am | delete
    Thanks for the scoop on this writer. I've never read one of her books. Now, I'm going to have to.

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Somerset author Christian Cook wins prestigious Ruth Rendell Short Story prize
A former pupil from St Dunstan's School, Glastonbury has won the prestigious Ruth Rendell Short Story Competition. Christian Cook, 37, who lives in Street, was presented with his award by Baroness Rendell at a ceremony in London.
From the archive, 2 June 1986: PD James: more deadly than the male
... writers should have been the best and the bestselling detective story writers since Wilkie Collins invented the genre ? Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Patricia Highsmith, Margery Allingham, Emma Lathen, Ruth Rendell and many others.
The lure of Nordic noir
It started with Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Josephine Tey, and later progressed to PD James, Ruth Rendell, Reginald Hill and Canada's own John Brady and Peter Robinson. The older I get, the edgier I want my mysteries to be.

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