From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell

Author: S. Rowland

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2000-12-19

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0230598781

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell is the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L.Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine. Providing studies of forty-two key novels, this volume introduces these authors for students and the general reader in the context of their lives, and of critical debates on gender, colonialism, psychoanalysis, the Gothic, and feminism. It includes interviews with P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell

Author: Susan Rowland

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780333684634

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This text considers the popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell. Studies of 42 novels are presented, introducing these authors to students and the general reader.

Master of the Moor
Master of the Moor

Author: Ruth Rendell

Publisher: Fawcett

Published: 2012-11-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0307829510

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .

Simisola
Simisola

Author: Ruth Rendell

Publisher: Dell

Published: 2011-11-02

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 030780612X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.”—Time No one admitted to spotting the doctor's missing daughter—even after the murders began. Melanie Akande, eschewing privilege, had insisted on going to the jobsearch office to find employment. But between that office and the bus stop, she vanished. Inspector Wexford hoped someone would have noticed her, since the Akandes were among the few Africans living in Kingsmarkham. Instead, he had found a middle-aged white woman strangled in bed, and a mysterious black girl buried in a shallow grave. Now Wexford, seeking connections among the three women, cast his baleful eye on the changes in once rural Sussex—from a Kuwaiti millionaire's Rolls-Royce to the growing slums and dismal hopelessness of unemployed youth. What he can't see among them is the shocking, blood-chilling motive to kill. And what he has yet to find is a doctor's missing child . . . Praise for Simisola “One of the author's best!”—The New York Times Book Review “Rendell delivers a complex crime deftly unraveled.”—Daily News (New York)

Envious Casca
Envious Casca

Author: Georgette Heyer

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2010-05-01

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1402249586

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Tis the season—to be dead... A holiday party takes on a sinister aspect when the colorful assortment of guests discovers there is a killer in their midst. The owner of the substantial estate, that old Scrooge Nathaniel Herriard, is found stabbed in the back. While the delicate matter of inheritance could be the key to this crime, the real conundrum is how any of the suspects could have entered a locked room to commit the foul deed. For Inspector Hemingway of Scotland Yard, the investigation is complicated by the fact that every guest is hiding something—throwing all of their testimony into question and casting suspicion far and wide. The clever and daring crime will mystify readers, yet the answer is in plain sight all along... Praise for Georgette Heyer: "Miss Heyer's characters and dialogue are an abiding delight to me...I have seldom met people to whom I have taken so violent a fancy from the word 'Go'." — Dorothy L. Sayers "A writer of great wit and style." — Daily Telegraph "Ms. Heyer is one of the most entertaining writers I have ever ready." — Reading Extravaganza "Miss Heyer has the delightful talent of blending humor with mystery." — Boston Evening Transcript

A Guilty Thing Surprised
A Guilty Thing Surprised

Author: Ruth Rendell

Publisher: Fawcett

Published: 2012-10-03

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0307829545

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

She took a peaceful walk in the woods—and found death waiting. . . . “The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world.”—The Boston Globe Elizabeth and Quentin Nightingale. A happy couple who lived quite graciously at Myfleet Manor in the gentle English countryside. Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague Inspector Burden find a most unsavory case on their hands—and must use all their wit and wisdom to solve it . . . “Undoubtedly one of the best writers of English mysteries and chiller-killer plots.”—Los Angeles Times “You cannot afford to miss Ruth Rendell.”—The New York Times Book Review “For readers who have almost given up mysteries . . . Rendell may be just the woman to get them started again.”—Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

The Best Man to Die
The Best Man to Die

Author: Ruth Rendell

Publisher: Fawcett

Published: 2012-10-03

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307829537

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The stag party was terrific. The incident that followed was terrifying. . . . “The best mystery writer anywere in the English-speaking world.”—The Boston Globe Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be a prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? But it was—and Charlie's death sentence was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Suspense is spiced with ironic twists as Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer. . . . Praise for The Best Man to Die “You cannot afford to miss Ruth Rendell!”—The New York Times Book Review “For readers who have almost given up mysteries . . . Rendell may be just the woman to get them started again.”—Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine “First-rate entertainment.”—Saturday Review

Put on by Cunning
Put on by Cunning

Author: Ruth Rendell

Publisher: Wexford

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780099534938

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The tragic death of Manuel Camargue, Kingsmarkham s very own celebrity flautist, is met with a ruling of misadventure. But when, after an absence of nineteen years, Camargue s entrancing daughter Natalie reappears, Dinah, his fiancée, goes to Wexford for

No Man's Nightingale
No Man's Nightingale

Author: Ruth Rendell

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 147674713X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and working to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism have played a factor in her murder? As he searches the Vicar's, Wexford sees a book containing a letter serving as a bookmark. Wexford puts it into his pocket and soon realizes his grave error - the former policeman has taken away a piece of valuable evidence without telling anybody."--