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A Dark-Adapted Eye is a 1986 psychological crime novel by Ruth Rendell, published under her Barbara Vine pseudonym and awarded the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. Narrated retrospectively by Faith Severn, it examines the history of the troubled Coverdale family after a journalist begins inve...
A Fatal Inversion is a 1987 psychological crime novel by Ruth Rendell, written under the name Barbara Vine and awarded the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. The story moves between the present and events surrounding a group of young people who shared an inherited English country house during t...
A Guilty Thing Surprised is a 1970 crime novel by Ruth Rendell featuring Chief Inspector Reg Wexford and Inspector Mike Burden. The investigation begins when Elizabeth Nightingale, a wealthy resident of Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in woodland near her home. Wexford's inquiries examine her marria...
From Doon with Death is Ruth Rendell's 1964 debut novel and the first book featuring Chief Inspector Reg Wexford and Inspector Mike Burden. The detectives investigate the killing of Margaret Parsons, an apparently conventional housewife whose possessions reveal a previously unknown romantic connecti...
Wolf to the Slaughter is a 1967 detective novel by Ruth Rendell and the third book in the Inspector Wexford series. Set in the fictional Sussex town of Kingsmarkham, it follows Wexford and Inspector Mike Burden as they investigate the apparent disappearance and possible murder of a young woman. The...
