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Ruth Rendell

Female : Novelist. Married Donald John Rendell in 1950, and then remarried him in 1977
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1930

Pseudonyms : Barbara Vine

Other Work : Journalist 1948-52

Education : Loughton County HS, Essex
INSPECTOR WEXFORD
(All UK Hutchinson unless stated, US by Doubleday)
1964-1970
From Doon With Death
(1964 John Long) (1964)
A New Lease of Death
(1967 John Long) (1967)
Wolf to the Slaughter
(1967 John Long) (1968)
The Best Man to Die
(1969 John Long) (1970)
A Guilty Thing Surpised
(1970) (1970)

1971-1980
No More Dying Then
(1971) (1972)
Murder Being Once Done
(1972) (1972)
Some Lie and Some Die
(1973) (1973)
Shake Hands Forever
(1975) (1975)
A Sleeping Life
(1978) (1978)
Means of Evil & Other Stories
(1979)

1981-1990
Put on by Cunning
(1981) (in US as "Death Notes" 1981 Pantheon)
The Speaker of Mandarin
(1983) (1983 Pantheon)
An Unkindness of Ravens
(1985) (1985 Pantheon)
Three Cases for Inspector Wexford
(1986 Eurographica) - 350 signed
The Veiled One
(1988 Century Hutchinson) (1988 Pantheon)
Wexford : An Omnibus
(1988)
The Second Wexford Omnibus
(1988)
The Third Wexford Omnibus
(1989)
The Fourth Wexford Omnibus
(1990)
Three Cases for Inspector Wexford
(1990 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 Signed

After 1991
The Fifth Wexford Omnibus
(1991)
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
(1992 Hutchinson £14.99) (1992 Warner)
Simisola
(1994 Hutchinson £14.99)
Road Rage
(1997 Hutchinson £16.99) (1997 Scorpion Press - 99 signed £50)
Harm Done
(1999 Hutchinson £16.99) (1999 Scorpion Press - 99 signed £50)
The Babes in the Wood
(2002 Hutchinson £16.99)
Thirteen Steps Down
(2004 Hutchinson £16.99)

NOVELS BY 'BARBARA VINE'
(All by Viking)
A Dark-Adapted Eye
(1986) (1986 Bantam)
A Fatal Inversion
(1987) (1987 Bantam)
The House of Stairs
(1988) (1989 Crown)
Gallowglass
(1990 £13.99) (1990 Crown)
King Solomon's Carpet
(1991 £14.99) (1992 Crown)
Asta's Book
(1993 £15.99) (1993 Scorpion Press) - Signed Ltd Ed 99
No Night is Too Long
(1994 Viking £15)
The Brimstone Wedding
(1996 Viking £16)
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
(1998 Viking £15.99)
Grasshopper
(2000 Viking £16.99)
The Blood Doctor
(2002 Viking £16.99)

OTHER BOOKS
1965-1980
To Fear a Painted Devil
(1965 John Long) (1965)
Vanity Dies Hard
(1965 John Long) (in US as "In Sickness & in Health" 1966)
The Secret House of Death
(1968 John Long) (1969)
One Across, Two Down
(1971) (1971)
The Face of Trespass
(1974) (1974)
A Demon in my View
(1976) (1977)
The Fallen Curtain & Other Stories
(1976) (1976)
A Judgement in Stone
(1977) (1978)
[Filmed in 1995 as "La Ceremonie"]
Make Death Love Me
(1979) (1979)
Means of Evil & Other Stories
(1979)
The Lake of Darkness
(1980) (1980)

1981-1985
Master of the Moor
(1982) (1982 Pantheon)
The Fever Tree & Other Stories
(1982) (1983 Pantheon)
The Killing Doll
(1984) (1984 Pantheon)
The Tree of Hands
(1984 Hutchinson £8.50) (1985 Pantheon)
[Filmed in 1988]
The New Girlfriend & Other Stories of Suspense
(1985) (1986 Pantheon)

1986-1990
Live Flesh
(1986) (1986 Pantheon)
Matters of Suspense
(1986 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 signed
A Warning to the Curious
(1987)
Heartstones
(1987 £6.95) (1987 Harper) - George Underwood
Collected Short Stories
(1987) (1988 Pantheon)
Talking to Strange Men
(1987) (1987 Harper)
The Bridesmaid
(1989) (1989 Mysterious Press)
Ruth Rendell's Suffolk
(1989 Frederick Muller) - photos Paul Bowden
Undermining the Central Line
(1989 Chatto & Windus 'Counterblast' Pb) - with Colin Ward
Going Wrong
(1990 Hutchinson £12.99) (1990 MP)
Unguarded Hours
(1990 Pandora £12.95)
The Strawberry Tree
(1990 Pandora) - with Helen Simpson

After 1991
The Copper Peacock & Other Stories
(1991 Hutchinson)
The Crocodile Bird
(1993 Hutchinson £14.99) (1993 London Limited Editions - 150 signed)
No Night is Too Long
(1994 Viking) (1994 Harmony)
Blood Lines : Long and Short Stories
(1995 Hutchinson £14.99) (1996 Crown)
(Ed) The Reason Why : An Anthology of the Murderous Mind (1995 Cape £15.99)
The Keys to the Street
(1996 Hutchinson £15.99) (1996 Crown)
A Sight for Sore Eyes
(1998 Hutchinson) (1998 Crown)
(1998 Scorpion Press - 99 Signed)
Piranha to Scurfy and Other Stories
(2000 Hutchinson £15.99)
Adam and Eve Pinch Me
(2001 Hutchinson £16.99)
The Rottweiler
(2003 Hutchinson £16.99)

Related Writers

Suffolk


See also

Crime Writer's Association