Ruth Rendell Bibliography








 

Novels: 

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To Fear a Painted Devil (1965), --- 

Vanity Dies Hard (1965), --- 

The Secret House of Death (1968), --- 

One Across, Two Down (1971), --- 

The Face of Trespass (1974), --- 

A Demon in my View (1976), --- (Gold Dagger Award), --- 

A Judgement in Stone (1977), --- 

Make Death Love Me (1979), --- 

The Lake of Darkness (1980), --- (National Book Award for Genre Fiction), --- 

Master of the Moor (1982), --- 

The Killing Doll (1984), --- 

The Tree of Hands (1984), --- (Silver Dagger Award), --- 

Live Flesh (1986), --- (Gold Dagger Award), --- 

Talking to Strange Men (1987), --- 

The Bridesmaid (1989), --- 

Going Wrong (1990), --- 

The Crocodile Bird (1993), --- 

The Keys to the Street (1996), --- 

A Sight for Sore Eyes (1998), --- 

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (2001), --- 

The Rottweiler (2003), --- 

Thirteen Steps Down (2004), ---

 

Inspector Wexford Series

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From Doon with Death (1964), --- 

Wolf to the Slaughter (1967), --- 

The Best Man to Die (1969), --- 

A New Lease of Death (1969), --- 

A Guilty Thing Surprised (1970), --- 

No More Dying Then (1971), --- 

Murder Being Once Done (1972), --- 

Some Lie and Some Die(1973), --- 

Shake Hands Forever (1975), --- 

A Sleeping Life (1979), --- 

Means of Evil (1979), --- (short stories), --- 

Put on by Cunning (1981), --- 

The Speaker of Mandarin (1983), --- 

An Unkindness of Ravens (1985), --- 

Heartstones (1987), --- 

The Veiled One (1988), --- 

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (1991), --- 

Simisola (1994), --- 

Road Rage (1997), --- 

Harm Done (1999), --- 

The Babes in the Wood (2002), --- 

End in Tears (2005), --- 

The Thief (2006), --- 

 

As Barbara Vine: 

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A Dark-adapted Eye (1986), --- (Edgar 1987), --- 

A Fatal Inversion (1987), --- (Gold Dagger Award), --- 

The House of Stairs (1988), --- 

Gallowglass (1990), --- 

King Solomon's Carpet (1991), --- (Gold Dagger Award), --- 

Asta's Book (1993), --- 

No Night is Too Long (1994), --- 

The Brimstone Wedding (1995), --- 

The Chimney-sweeper's Boy (1998), --- 

Grasshopper (2000), --- 

The Blood Doctor (2002), --- 

The Minoautorbusr (2005), --- 

 

Short story Collections: 

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The Fallen Curtain (1976), --- 

The Fever Tree (1982), --- 

The New Girlfriend (1985), --- 

The Copper Peacock (1991), --- 

Blood Lines(1995), --- 

Piranha to Scurfy (2000), --- 

 

Non-Fiction: 

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Ruth Rendell's Suffolk (1989), --- 

Undermining the Central Line (1989), --- 

The Reason Why: An Anthology of the Murderous Mind (1995), ---