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
'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
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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Wolf to the Slaughter
Ruth Rendell
184pages
7 heures de lecture
Chief Inspector Wexford investigates the circumstances surrounding a blood-soaked hotel room which lacks any other signs of a victim, and the disappearance of a beautiful, promiscuous woman and the bundle of cash she'd had in her pocket.
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The Best Man to Die
Ruth Rendell
201pages
8 heures de lecture
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
256pages
9 heures de lecture
The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Called in to investigate, Chief Inspector Wexford quickly determines that the Nightingales were considered the perfect couple - wealthy, attractive and without an enemy in the world. Someone who hated - or perhaps loved - her enough to beat her to death.
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No more dying then : [a chief inspector Wexford mystery]
Ruth Rendell
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
The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. It seems fitting that the final resting place of a girl's body should be in a graveyard. But this is no peaceful burial. This is a brutal murder scene. Under strict orders from his doctor to indulge in no criminal investigation, Wexford is sent to London for a break away from the pressures of the Kingsmarkham police force. 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. Despite opposition from Howard and his team, Wexford is drawn to the case. And when he unearths Loveday's connection to a religious cult whose leader was imprisoned for sexual absue, he relentlessly pursues this sinister new lead...
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Some lie and some die
Ruth Rendell
192pages
7 heures de lecture
A mutilated body found at a rock festival. In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a charismatic singer who inspires an unwholesome devotion in his followers.Some Lie and Some Dieis a devilishly absorbing novel, in which Wexford's deductive powers come up against the aloof arrogance of pop stardom. With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Shake Hands Forever
Ruth Rendell
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
Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life. In A Sleeping Life , master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the plain Polly Flinders--provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of possible scenarios--and suspects--behind the Comfrey murder. Brilliantly entertaining, exceptionally crafted, A Sleeping Life evokes the dark realities, half-truths, and flights of fancy that constitute a life.
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Put on by cunning
Ruth Rendell
208pages
8 heures de lecture
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
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
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
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
Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID had no idea just how terminally unlucky the thirteenth of May would prove. Even alive, he could have no inkling of the chain of bloody events to follow-At first the bloodbath at Tancred House looks like the desperate work of a burglar panicked into murder. The sole survivor of the massacre, seventeen-year-old Daisy Flory, remembers the events imperfectly, and her confused account of the fatal night seems to confirm this theory. But more and more, Chief Inspector Wexford is convinced that the crime lies closer to home, and that it has sinister links to the murder of Sergeant Martin some ten months earlier ...
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Simisola
Ruth Rendell
352pages
13 heures de lecture
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
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
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
323pages
12 heures de lecture
This was an investigation which would call into question many of Wexford's assumptions about the way people behave, including his own family. . . In The Babes in the Wood Ruth Rendell brings her keen psychological insight and rigorous moral sense to bear on Wexford’s assumptions about the way people behave, including his own family, as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of two teenagers and their babysitter. There hadn't been anything in living memory like the kind of rain that had caused the River Brede to burst its banks and flood the homes in the area. The Subaqua Task Force could find no trace of the missing teenagers and their babysitter…but their mother was still convinced that her children were dead.
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Inspector Wexford: Tu accoucheras dans la douleur
Une enquête de l'inspecteur Wexford
Ruth Rendell
352pages
13 heures de lecture
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
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
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
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
No Man's Nightingale- the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. The woman vicar of St Peter's Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her vicarage. Inspector Wexford is retired, but he retains a relish for solving mysteries especially when they are as close to home as this one is. So when he's asked whether he will assist on the case, he readily agrees. But why did the vicar die? And is anyone else in Kingsmarkham in danger? What Wexford doesn't know is that the killer is far closer than he, or anyone else, thinks.
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Prostředky zla a jiné povídky
Ruth Rendell
V pěti povídkách musí Wexford se svým týmem vyřešit zcela odlišné záhady a poradit si se zdánlivě nesourodými stopami. Jak souvisí otrava houbami s nepochopitelnou sebevraždou mladé ženy? Proč bohatá důchodkyně zemřela, zrovna když měl její lékař dovolenou? Z jakého důvodu někdo unesl z kočárku nemluvně ve chvíli, kdy v jiné části města probíhala loupež drahocenných klenotů? Proč se inspektor při dovolené v Chorvatsku díval ženám po nohách a co má společného obyčejný kalendář s tragickým případem otravy jedem? 1. vydání.
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Means Of Evil And Other Stories
Ruth Rendell
240pages
9 heures de lecture
What connects a kidnapped baby, a woman's body left to rot in a cove in Yugoslavia, a suspicious suicide and the century-old case of a wife who poisons her husband? Then Wexford discovers Paddy Jasper has returned to Kingsmarkham, a man previously investigated by Wexford for violently abusing a child.
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Means of Evil
Ruth Rendell
176pages
7 heures de lecture
A collection of five short mystery stories featuring Chief Inspector Wexford.
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