Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine) Click here for a post I’ve written about Ruth Rendell’s Inspector Wexford Mystery Series. Ruth Rendell is found on both of these very prestigious lists: Crime Writers’ Association Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time Mystery Writers of America Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time INSPECTOR WEXFORD Mysteries: Main Character: Inspector Wexford, Chief Inspector, England From Doon with Death ‘64 Sins of the Father ’67 aka A New Lease of Death Wolf to the Slaughter ‘67 The Best Man to Die ‘69 A Guilty Thing Surprised ‘70 No More Dying Then ‘71 Murder Being Once Done ’72 Some Lie and Some Die ‘73 Shake Hands Forever ‘75 A Sleeping Life ‘78 Means of Evil ’80 (short stories) Put on by Cunning ’81 (aka Death Notes’81) The Speaker of Mandarin ‘83 An Unkindness of Ravens ‘86 The Veiled One ‘88 Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter ’92 Simisola ‘94 Road Rage ‘97 Harm Done ‘00 The Babes in the Wood ‘03 End in Tears ‘05 Not in the Flesh ’08 The Monster in the Box ’09 The Vault ’11 No Man’s Nightingale ’13 STAND ALONES: To Fear a Painted Devil ’65 Vanity Dies Hard ’65 (aka In Sickness and In Health) The Secret House of Death ’68 One Across, Two Down ’71 The Face of Trespass ’74 A Demon in My View ’76 The Fallen Curtain and other Stories ’76 A Judgement in Stone ’77 Make Death Love Me ’79 The Lake of Darkness ’80 Master of the Moor ’82 The Tree of Hands ’84 The Killing Doll ’84 The New Girl Friend ’85 Live Flesh ’86 Collected Short Stories ’87 Heartstones ’87 A Warning to the Curious ’87 Talking to Strange Men ’87 The Bridesmaid ’89 Going Wrong ’90 The Copper Peacock and Other Stories ’91 The Fever Tree and Other Stories ’92 Women of Mystery ’93 (Anthology) The Crocodile Bird ’93 The Keys to the Street ’96 Garden of Deadly Delights ’96 (Anthology) Bloodlines ’97 A Sight for Sore Eyes ’99 Thornapple ’00 Adam and Eve and Pinch Me ’02 The Rottweiler ’04 Thirteen Steps Down ’05 The Water’s Lovely ’06 Tigerlily’s Orchids ’11 The Three Hands ‘86 Means of Evil ‘90 Achilles Heel ‘91 Death Notes Mystery Cats ‘91 Inspector Wexford on Holiday ‘91 The Fall of the Coin Portobello ’10 The St. Zita Society ’12 The Girl Next Door ’14 Dark Corners ’15 As Barbara Vine: The Dark-Adapted Eye ’86 A Fatal Inversion ’87 The House of Stairs ’89 Gallowglass ’90 King Solomon’s Carpet ’91 Asta’s Book ’93 Anna’s Book ’93 No Night Is Too Long ’94 The Brimstone Wedding ’96 The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy ’98 Piranha to Scurfy ’01 Grasshopper ’01 The Blood Doctor ’02 The Minotaur ‘06 The Birthday Present ’09 The Child’s Child ’12
