{"id":22714,"date":"2015-05-04T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=22714"},"modified":"2015-05-04T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T16:30:27","slug":"the-incomparable-ruth-rendell-dies-great-mystery-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/the-incomparable-ruth-rendell-dies-great-mystery-author\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incomparable Ruth Rendell Dies &#8211; Great Mystery Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/220px-RuthRendell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22718\" src=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/220px-RuthRendell.png\" alt=\"220px-RuthRendell\" width=\"220\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/220px-RuthRendell.png 220w, https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/220px-RuthRendell-120x150.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Over the weekend, Ruth Rendell passed away. What very sad news for the world of great mystery-writing. For the last half century, she has given us many great works of fiction. I have long considered her one of my very favorite mystery authors, and am so grateful to her for the many hours of mystery-reading enjoyment she has given me and others around the world.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990, the British Crime Writer&#8217;s Association compiled a list of the top 100 crime novels of all time. Two of Ruth Rendell&#8217;s novels were on that list: <em>A Demon in My View<\/em> and <em>Judgement in Stone<\/em>. Five years later, the Mystery Writers of America compiled a list of the top 100 novels of all time, and Ruth Rendell&#8217;s <em>A Judgement in Stone<\/em> was on that list.<\/p>\n<p>I am partial to her Inspector Wexford mysteries, however I read\u00a0(and enjoy!)\u00a0both her stand alone novels written as Barbara Vine, as well as Ruth Rendell.\u00a0The world of mystery books has lost one of its finest authors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-32564813\">Here is an article on the BBC site with more information about Ruth Rendell.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Ruth Rendell passed away. What very sad news for the world of great mystery-writing. For the last half century, she has given us many great works of fiction. I have long considered her one of my very favorite mystery authors, and am so grateful to her for the many hours of mystery-reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-musings","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-5Um","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22714"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22721,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22714\/revisions\/22721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}