L'inspecteur Wexford Séries

Cette série suit le travail d'un détective anglais expérimenté qui élucide des affaires complexes dans un cadre en apparence tranquille, mais souvent trompeur. Aux côtés de son équipe, il dévoile des secrets sombres et des motivations complexes cachés sous la surface de la vie ordinaire. En mettant l'accent sur la psychologie des personnages et une enquête méticuleuse, elle offre une lecture captivante aux amateurs de romans policiers classiques.

No more dying then : [a chief inspector Wexford mystery]

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From Doon with Death
Ruth Rendell
182pages
7 heures de lecture
3,4(125)Évaluer
'Love And Death,' Said Chief Inspector Wexford. 'Those Were The Only Two Sensational Things That Ever Happened To Margaret Parsons, Love And Death. The Thing Is They Both Happened In My District.'The Police Knew All About Margaret Parsons' Life, And By The Look Of It, It Was Very Dull. Margaret Parsons Had Been A 'Good Woman'. Religious, Old-Fashioned And Respectable, Her Life Had Been As Spotless And Ordinary As Her Home, As Unexciting And Dependable As Her Marriage. But It Was Not Margaret Parsons' Life That Interested Wexford. It Was Her Death. She Had Been A Predictable, Ordinary Woman - But Now She Had Met A Death Of Passion And Violence For Which There Seemed No Motive Or Clue.
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Sins of the Father
Ruth Rendell
3,6(1341)Évaluer
It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the murderer's beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder -- and often conceals even deeper secrets . . .
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The Best Man to Die
Ruth Rendell
201pages
8 heures de lecture
3,8(2813)Évaluer
Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer . . .
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A Guilty Thing Surprised
Ruth Rendell
3,6(76)Évaluer
The fifth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The discovery of Elizabeth Nightingale's broken body in the woods near her home could not have come as a bigger shock. Called in to investiage, Chief Inspector Wexford quickly determines that the Nightingales were considered the perfect couple - wealthy, attractive and without an enemy in the world. However, someone must have been alone with Elizabeth that night in the woods. Someone who hated - or perhaps loved - her enough to beat her to death. The case seems straightforward. But Wexford soon learn that beneath the placid surface of the Nightingales' lives lie undercurrents and secrets no one ever suspected.
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No more dying then : [a chief inspector Wexford mystery]
Ruth Rendell
3,8(2328)Évaluer
Detective Mike Burden's wife has just died, and his sister-in-law is staying at his house to help take care of his two children. He is so utterly miserable, and grief stricken, that he can't see how much they all need him to focus himself on his home life. Partially because of his inability to deal with his personal life, when a 5-year-old boy disappears, he throws himself whole-heartedly into the investigation. He becomes over involved with the boy's mother. The recent disappearance of a 12-year-old girl makes the case more worrisome.
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Murder Being Once Done
Ruth Rendell
272pages
10 heures de lecture
3,7(134)Évaluer
The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. But then he discovers that his nephew Howard is heading the investigation into the macabre murder of Loveday Morgan, whose body was found abandoned in Kenbourne Cemetery.
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Some Lie and Some Die
Ruth Rendell
272pages
10 heures de lecture
3,7(142)Évaluer
"When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival at Sundays near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. The victim's face has been pulped by the back-end of a bottle, but who, in this atmosphere of peace and love, could be capable of such violence? The body is that of local girl turned stripper Dawn Stonor, but it is the unlikely link between this ill-fated girl and the mysterious folk-singer Zeno Vedast that pique Wexford's interest."--Back cover.
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Shake Hands Forever
Ruth Rendell
3,8(2265)Évaluer
The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular and respected series of simplified readers for learners of English.
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A Sleeping Life
Ruth Rendell
192pages
7 heures de lecture
3,8(1946)Évaluer
With no clues as to the murdered woman's identity, all Wexford has to go on is his imagination. The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman, biggish and gaunt. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam, a glare, even in death, of scorn. But that must have been his imagination, and his imagination was almost all he had to go on. The woman was a stranger. Her handbag held little more than three keys on a ring and forty-two pounds in a new wallet. There was nothing to give him her address, her occupation or even her identity — let alone any clues that might lead to her killer. The woman was dead but, as Wexford knew only too well, death by murder is, in a way, not an ending but a beginning. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Put on by cunning
Ruth Rendell
208pages
8 heures de lecture
3,8(1304)Évaluer
Sir Manuel Carmargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead. Misadventure. An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into the water to be trapped under a lid of ice. Only a glove remained to point to where he lay, one of its fingers rising out of the drifts. There's nothing Chief Inspector Wexford likes better than an open-and-shut case. They're so restful. And yet there are one or two niggling doubts - and the disturbing return of Carmargue's daughter, now a considerable heiress, after an absence of nineteen years. Is Wexford going to listen to that nagging inner voice of his? And if he does, what exactly does he plan to do?
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Inspector Wexford Mystery: Speaker of Mandarin - First Time in Paperback!
Ruth Rendell
213pages
8 heures de lecture
3,4(112)Évaluer
Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. After their return to England, one of his fellow tourists is found murdered. As he questions other members of the group, Wexford finds secrets of greed, treachery, theft, and adultery, leading the distressed inspector to ask not who is innocent, but who is least guilty . . .
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An unkindness of ravens
Ruth Rendell
272pages
10 heures de lecture
3,7(3066)Évaluer
Unkindness: the collective word for a group of ravens. They are not particularly predatory birds . . . but neither are they soft and submissive. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. And he certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide . . .
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The Veiled One
Ruth Rendell
288pages
11 heures de lecture
3,8(2238)Évaluer
A Reg Wexford mystery. In a desolate subterranean car park, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford has been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary - just a teenage girl in a red car, driving rather too fast. Only later does he learn of the car park victim, murdered with a length of wire.
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Kissing The Gunner's Daughter
Ruth Rendell
3,6(86)Évaluer
Friday the thirteenth of May was most unlucky day for Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID. That day he confiscated a replica gun from his son's school briefcase and lost his life in a bank robbery - the first link in a chain of events which led to a series of deaths. When three people are discovered shot at Tancred House, Chief Inspector Wexford suspects a connection between the two apparently unrelated crimes. But only the seventeen-year-old daughter of one of the victims survives to provide the most confusing of clues. -- Although Wexford is very taken with the crime's only witness, Daisy Hoy, his feelings do not prevent his deductive powers from functioning with customary intuitive precision. --
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Simisola
Ruth Rendell
352pages
13 heures de lecture
3,2(22)Évaluer
Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Melanie, the local doctor's daughter - Chief Inspector Wexford takes a personal interest in the case___
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Road Rage
Ruth Rendell
384pages
14 heures de lecture
3,8(2841)Évaluer
A by-pass is planned in Kingsmarkham - that will destroy its peace and the natural habitat forever. Dora Wexford joins the protest movement. But Wexford must be more circumspect. Trouble is expected. But before the protesters make their presence felt, the
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Sans dommage apparent
Ruth Rendell
421pages
15 heures de lecture
3,4(118)Évaluer
À Kingsmarkham, des jeunes filles disparaissent mystérieusement puis réapparaissent quelques jours plus tard. Droguées, elles ne peuvent donner aucune indication précise sur leur détention. Dans cette atmosphère d'angoisse générale, un détenu condamné pour pédophilie est remis en liberté, ce qui ne fait qu'accroître l'inquiétude des habitants de Kingsmarkham. Responsable de ces deux affaires, Wexford enquête dans la cité où s'est installé le pédophile et où habite l'une des jeunes filles enlevées. Très vite, les événements prennent un tour dramatique, et deux meurtres successifs sont commis... Sans dommage apparent, un pur " Wexford ", est du grand Ruth Rendell. Des jeunes filles disparaissent, puis reparaissent, droguées au Rohypnol. Un enfant est kidnappé. Meurtres, pédophilie, violences conjugales. Ecriture précise et suave, perversité parfaite. Ecrire l'amuse, elle ignore la page et la nuit blanches.
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The Babes in the Wood
Ruth Rendell
320pages
12 heures de lecture
3,8(5005)Évaluer
A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a - well, teen-sitter, I suppose, got back last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they've all drowned.'There hadn't been anything like
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Inspector Wexford: Tu accoucheras dans la douleur
Une enquête de l'inspecteur Wexford
Ruth Rendell
352pages
13 heures de lecture
3,1(116)Évaluer
The twentieth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The young woman in the car behind is spared. But only for a while... A few weeks later, George Marshalson lives every father's worst nightmare: he discovers the murdered body of his eighteen-year-old daughter on the side of the road. As a man with a strained father-daughter relationship himself, Wexford must struggle to keep his professional life as a detective separate from his personal life as husband and father. Particularly when a second teenage girl is murdered - a victim unquestionably linked to the first - and another family is shattered...
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Not in the flesh
Ruth Rendell
384pages
14 heures de lecture
3,4(105)Évaluer
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, and the post-mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. Wexford knows
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Mon plus vieil ennemi
Ruth Rendell
3,3(92)Évaluer
L'inspecteur Wexford soupçonne Eric Targo, dont la femme a été étranglée. Bien qu'aucune condamnation n'ait eu lieu, une autre femme a subi le même sort. Des années plus tard, Wexford se retrouve à nouveau face à Targo.
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Le Livre de Poche: La Cave à charbon
Une enquête de Wexford
Ruth Rendell
384pages
14 heures de lecture
3,6(118)Évaluer
L'impossible s'est produit: l'inspecteur Wexford a pris sa retraite ! Or une rencontre inattendue avec une ancienne connaissance, le commissaire Ede, va bouleverser ses plans. Les corps de deux femmes et d'un homme ont ete decouverts dans la cave a charbon d'une maison cossue de St John's Wood a Londres. Rien ne permet de les identifier, mais on a trouve dans la veste de l'homme des bijoux d'une valeur de quarante mille livres. Intrigue, Wexford accepte d'aider le commissaire, tout en menant une enquete parallele sur le maniaque qui a attaque sa fille en plein jour. Il est loin de se douter des perils qu'il va affronter une fois la cave a charbon videe.
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No Man's Nightingale
Ruth Rendell
352pages
13 heures de lecture
3,4(87)Évaluer
No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parentage - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter's Church. But it comes as a profound shock to everyone when she is found strangled in the Vicarage. A garrulous cleaner, Maxine, also shared by the Wexfords, discovers the body. In his comparatively recent retirement, the former Detective Chief Inspector is devoting much time to reading, and is deep into Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He has little patience with Maxine's prattle. But when his old friend Mike Burden asks if he might like to assist on this case as Crime Solutions Adviser (unpaid), Wexford is obliged to pay more precise attention to all available information. The old instincts have not been blunted by a life where he and Dora divide their time between London and Kingsmarkham. Wexford retains a relish for solving puzzles and a curiosity about people which is invaluable in detective work. For all his experience and sophistication, Burden tends to jump to conclusions. But he is wise enough to listen to the man whose office he inherited, and whose experience makes him a most formidable ally.

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