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Ruth Rendell Biografía y Hechos
Ruth Barbara Rendell (Londres, Inglaterra, 17 de febrero de 1930-ibid., 2 de mayo de 2015) fue una de las autoras británica de novela negra más conocidas del siglo XX. Sus obras, especialmente la serie protagonizada por el inspector Wexford, han sido adaptadas en varias ocasiones para el cine y la televisión.[1][2] Biografía Rendell comenzó a trabajar como periodista antes de iniciar su carrera de escritora en 1964. En su primera novela, publicada ese mismo año, aparece por primera vez uno de sus personajes más populares, el inspector Wexford. Rendell publicó 24 novelas de lo que se conoce como las "Wexford novels". Todas ellas ambientadas en la ciudad ficticia inglesa de Kingsmarkham.[3] Además de la serie Wexford, Rendell escribió más de 30 novelas negras y numerosos cuentos de misterio, convirtiéndose así en una de las escritoras más prolíficas de la literatura de intriga y misterio británica.[4][5]La gran calidad literaria de sus obras la hicieron merecedora de premios como las Dagas de Plata, Oro y Diamante Cartier, de la Crime Writers Association,[6]tres premios Edgar Allan Poe, de la Asociación de escritores de misterio de Estado Unidos; el National Book Award,[7] en 1980, o el premio literario del Sunday Times en 1990.[8] Ruth Barbara Grasemann (su nombre de soltera) dividió su producción literaria entre los libros que firmaba con su nombre de casada (Ruth Rendell), novelas policiacas, que muchas veces protagonizaba el inspector Wexford, y aquellas de tramas más retorcidas, donde exploraba la psicología criminal, publicadas a partir de 1986 y firmadas bajo el seudónimo de Barbara Vine[4] En 1996 fue nombrada Comendadora de la Orden del Imperio Británico, y en 1997 baronesa y miembro de la Cámara de los Lores por el gobierno Laborista, desde donde impulsó causas de corte progresista, como la ley contra la mutilación genital femenina, aprobada en 2003.[9] Obra Es característico de su técnica literaria el uso del intertexto, de clásicos incuestionables de la literatura inglesa y universal para crear a partir de ellos nuevos argumentos. Por ejemplo, en Carne trémula (1986) utiliza elementos de Crimen y castigo de Dostoyevski; La casa de las escaleras (1988) tiene como una de sus principales líneas argumentales la intriga de Las alas de la paloma de Henry James. Emplea también fragmentos de El gran Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Mariana in the South" de Tennyson y de Safo; otro ejemplo sería el de la novela No More Dying Then, del inspector Wexford, que se basa en el soneto 146 de Shakespeare. La obra de Rendell ha sido adaptada en varias ocasiones, destacando en formato televisivo las intrigas protagonizadas por el inspector Wexford, interpretado por George Baker, bajo el título de Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987-2000), y las versiones cinematográficas a cargo de Pedro Almodovar (Carne Trémula), Claude Chabrol (La ceremonia, La dama de honor) o Claude Miller (Alias Betty).[10][4] Legado En 2016 fue creado el Premio Ruth Rendell por el National Literacy Trust. Se concede a autores cuyo trabajo ha inspirado a los niños y mejorado su alfabetización.[11] Entre los ganadores de este premio se encuentran: Karl Nova (2020) Tom Palmer (2019) Cressida Cowell (2017/2018) Andy McNab (2016) Publicaciones Serie Inspector Wexford From Doon with Death, 1964, (Dedicatoria mortal). A New Lease of Death, 1967, (Falsa identidad). Wolf to the Slaughter, 1967, (Camino del matadero). The Best Man to Die, 1969, (Un cadáver para la boda). A Guilty Thing Surprised, 1970, (En la oscuridad del bosqueLos hilos del azar) No More Dying Then, 1971, (No más muertes). Murder Being Once Done, 1972, (Después del asesinato). Some Lie and Some Die, 1973, (Algunos mienten, otros mueren). Shake Hands Forever, 1975, (Eterna despedida). A Sleeping Life, 1979, (Una vida durmiente). Put on by Cunning, 1981, (El juego de los astutos). The Speaker of Mandarin, 1983, (Un cuento chino). An Unkindness of Ravens 1985, (La crueldad de los cuervos). The Veiled One, 1988, (El rostro velado). Kissing the Gunner's Daughter, 1991, (Un beso para mi asesino). Simisola, 1994, (Simisola). Road Rage, 1997, (Carretera de odio). Harm Done, 1999, (El daño está hecho). The Babes in the Wood, 2002, (Perdidos en la noche). End in Tears (2005). Not in the Flesh (2007). The Monster in the Box (2009). The Vault (2011). No Man's Nightingale (2013). Otras novelas de la autora To Fear a Painted Devil,1965, (La estampa del diablo). Vanity Dies Hard, 1965, (El precio de la vanidad ). The Secret House of Death, 1968 (La casa secreta de la muerte). One Across, Two Down, 1971, (Uno horizontal, dos vertical). The Face of Trespass, 1974, (El rostro de la traición). A Demon in My View, 1976, (Me parecía un demonio).[12] A Judgement in Stone, 1977, (La mujer de piedra). Make Death Love Me, 1979, (Morir de pie). The Lake of Darkness,1980, (El lago de las tinieblas). Master of the Moor, 1982, (El señor del páramo). The Killing Doll, 1984, (La muñeca asesina). The Tree of Hands,1984, (El árbol de manos). Live Flesh, 1986, (Carne trémula). Talking to Strange Men,1987, (Hablando con extraños). The Bridesmaid, 1989, (Amores que matan). Going Wrong, 1990, (Un simple fallo) The Crocodile Bird, 1993, (El pájaro del cocodrilo) The Keys to the Street, 1996, (Las llaves de la calle). A Sight for Sore Eyes, 1998, (Deseo criminal). Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, 2001 (Obsesión). The Rottweiler (2000). Thirteen Steps Down, 2004, (Trece escalones). The Water's Lovely, 2006, (El agua está espléndida). Portobello (2008). Tigerlily's Orchids (2010). The Saint Zita Society, 2012, (El club de Hexam Place). The Girl Next Door (2014). Dark Corners (2015). Novelas cortas El fruto del estramonio (Thornapple) (1982)[13] Piedras como corazones (Heartstones) (1987) The Thief (2006) Firmadas como Barbara Vine Inocencia singular (A Dark-Adapted Eye,1986) El largo verano (A Fatal Inversion, 1987) La casa de las escaleras (The House of Stairs, 1988) El fiel vasallo (Gallowglass, 1990) La alfombra del rey Salomón (King Solomon's Carpet, 1991) El diario de Asta (Asta's Book, 1993). Título en Estados Unidos: Anna's Book. Larga es la noche (No Night Is Too Long,1994) Bodas de azufre (The Brimstone Wedding,1995) La mariposa negra (The Chimney-sweeper's Boy,1998) Saltamontes (Grasshopper, 2000) Escrito en la sangre (The Blood Doctor, 2002) El Minotauro (The Minotaur, 2005) The Birthday Present (2008) The Child's Child (2012) Colecciones de relatos cortos La planta carnívora y otros relatos (The Fallen Curtain, 1976) La senda de la maldad y otros relatos (Means of Evil and Other Stories,1979) (cinco relatos del Inspector Wexford) El árbol de la malaria y otros relatos (The Fever Tree, 1982) Su nueva amiga (The New Girlfriend and Other Stories) (1985) The Copper Peacock (1991) Linaje de sangre (Blood Lines, 1995) El azar de la tragedia (Piranha to Scurfy, 2000) Collected Short Stories, Volume 1 (2006) Collected Short Stories, Volume 2 (2008) Una pizca de locur.... Descubre los libros populares de Ruth Rendell. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de Ruth Rendell
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The Lady Chapel
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The Forsyte Saga
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Death Comes to Pemberley (Enhanced Edition)
P. D. JamesThe world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. This enhanced ebook of Death Comes to Pemberley contains video and audio that can be viewed and heard on a tabl...
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The Murder of Harriet Krohn
Karin Fossum & James AndersonCharlo Torp has problems. He’s grieving for his late wife, he’s lost his job, and gambling debts have alienated him from his teenage daughter. Desperate, his solution is to rob an ...
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The Temptation of Forgiveness
Donna Leon'Donna Leon has a wonderful feel for the hidden evils that lie below the façade of the magical city' The TimesImportant information is leaking from inside the Venetian Questura, an...
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The David Raker Collection Books 1-3
Tim WeaverThe first three thrillers in the stunning David Raker series for the first time in one unique bundle Chasing the DeadOne year ago, Alex Towne's body was found.One month ago, his m...
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With No One as Witness
Elizabeth GeorgeWhen the Metropolitan Police fail to realise a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer's victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institution...
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The Accusers
Lindsey DavisFans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor, C. J. Sansom will absolutely love this gripping pageturner of a historical mystery from multimillion copy bestselling author Lindse...
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What Came Before He Shot Her
Elizabeth GeorgeThe shocking conclusion of Elizabeth George's previous bestseller, WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS, saw the wife of New Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley gunned down in the street outside her h...
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Prague Nights
Benjamin Black'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head' Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the cit...
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Falling in Love
Donna Leon'Donna Leon's deft and descriptive words do for Venice what Canaletto did for this serenest of cities with his brushes and paint palette and bring it to life in all its reach and c...
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Payment in Blood
Elizabeth GeorgeAn isolated Scottish mansion is the venue for a reading of a controversial new play by a West End theatre company. But on the very first evening, the playwright is savagely murder...
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The Case of the Love Commandos
Tarquin HallThe wonderful fourth outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri ('the Indian Hercule Poirot' Financial Times).When India’s Love Commandos rescue a young woman from a highcaste family who...
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Night Music: Nocturnes 2
John Connolly'On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier' won the CWA Dagger for best short story.'The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository' won the 2014 Anthon...
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The Minotaur
Barbara VineThe Minotaur a thrilling novel from the bestselling queen of crime Barbara VineKerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John...
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The Girl Next Door
Ruth RendellIn all her novels, multimillion copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell digs deep beneath the surface to investigate the secrets of the human psyche and The Girl Next...
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Wycliffe and the Beales
W.J. BurleyA mysterious death ... an eccentric family living on the edge of Dartmoor ... And Chief Superintendent Wycliffe has one of his most complex cases to date.The Cornish Detective seri...
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The Waters of Eternal Youth
Donna Leon'There is no one better than Donna Leon at showing the ripple effects of a single traumatic event . . . Leon has recast the city in her own venerable image: full of surprises and h...
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A Deep Deceit
Hilary Bonner'A very classy crime yarn' Manchester Evening NewsAlthough to all appearances Suzanne and Carl Peters live an idyllic life in pretty St Ives, beneath the veneer of domestic bliss l...
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The Fiction of Ruth Rendell
Barbara LeavyAside from Ruth Rendell's brilliance as a fiction writer, and her appeal to mystery lovers, her books portray a compelling, universal experience that her readers can immediately re...
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A Banquet of Consequences
Elizabeth GeorgeInspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to dis...
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No Safe Place
Richard North PattersonNo Safe Place centres on seven days in a closly contested Presidential primary, in which political violence, abortion politics and potential scandal all converge. Kerry Kilcannon i...
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The Other Child
Charlotte Link & Stefan ToblerThe million copy bestselling author of psychological suspense 'High suspense. A book to read in one go' Bella Magazine In the northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is fo...
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The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan DoyleSHERLOCK HOLMES IS NOT ONLY THE MOST FAMOUS CHARACTER IN CRIME FICTION BUT THE MOST FAMOUS CHARACTER IN ALL OF FICTION. 'Holmes has a timeless intelligence that puts him head, sho...
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Silent Honour
Danielle SteelIn August 1941 Hiroko, eighteen years old and torn between her mother's belief in ancient traditions and her father's passion for modern ideas, leaves Kyoto to come to America for ...
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The Bridesmaid
Ruth RendellWould you kill for love? A breathtakingly tense and taut exploration into the criminal power of love from multimillion copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell. Perfec...
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Wycliffe & The Tangled Web
W.J. BurleyA beautiful girl goes missing, and Wycliffe must untangle a mystery to solve a murder . . .A beautiful schoolgirl goes missing from a Cornish village on the day she has told her bo...
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Fault Lines
Natasha CooperThe brilliant and idealistic Trish Maguire returns in a devastating case of corruption and conspiracy. In a particularly difficult case of alleged child abuse, Trish knows that the...
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The Shut Eye
Belinda BauerFROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP'The most polished crime writer on the murder beat' Daily ExpressFive footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here. Y...
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Nocturnes
John ConnollyTake his hand and follow him into the darkness . . . John Connolly, bestselling author of five brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a d...
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Trace Elements
Donna LeonTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Leon is a superb novelist . . .You can feel the tension, fear, horror and wonder' The Times'They killed him. It was bad money.' A dying hospice patie...
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The Wych Elm
Tana FrenchFrom the writer whose novels inspired the BBC's Dublin Murders TV series... 'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES 'A...
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Unto Us a Son Is Given
Donna Leon'Atmospheric, clever, witty and amusing. If I were only allowed to read one crime series again it would be that of Donna Leon.' The TimesA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR ...
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Playing for the Ashes
Elizabeth GeorgeWhen the body of England's leading batsman, Kenneth Fleming, is discovered in the burntout shell of a country cottage, it looks like a clearcut case of arson. Further investigation...
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Something to Hide
Elizabeth GeorgeA hugely complex and entertaining novel Star Pick, The Times Crime ClubElizabeth George delivers another intelligent, intricate mystery New York TimesSuperlative . . . This is a ...
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A Trio of Murders
Jill McGownThe first three books in Jill McGown's classic crime series, featuring Detective Inspector Lloyd and Sergeant Judy HillA Perfect Match The news that a woman's body has been found i...
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Believing the Lie
Elizabeth GeorgeDetective Inspector Lynley is approached by business magnate Bernard Fairclough for a confidential review not a formal investigation of the circumstances of his nephew's demi...
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The Cross Legged Knight
Candace RobbMuchloved author Candace Robb has penned another compelling and captivating medieval mystery that magically brings 14th Century York to life and pushes the reader relentlessly onwa...
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By Its Cover
Donna Leon'The multiple awardwinning Leon has lost none of her talent for weaving intrigue, and the atmosphere of Venice is as beguiling as ever.' Living NorthA Washington Post BestsellerA N...
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The Rottweiler
Ruth RendellThe Rottweiler is a chilling tale of a psychopath and the daily lives of those living in his murderous shadow. Expertly brought to life by multimillion copy and SUNDAY TIMES bests...
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Seeking Sanctuary
Frances FyfieldWhen Theo Calvert was driven out of the family home by his wife's cloying piety he had determined that his daughters would follow him. But in the face of the law, the girls' health...
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Francis John Jones, 1924- (Storycuts)
Rachel SeiffertA PhD student interviews her friend's grandfather for her thesis. While not quite meeting her eyes, he recounts his wartime history, lingering on an excursion that has never been f...
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Make Death Love Me
Ruth RendellThe potent and murky impulses of desire, greed, obsession and fear combine with deadly results in this compelling psychological thriller from multimillion copy and SUNDAY TIMES bes...
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Damage
Josephine HartNow filmed as Obsession on Netflix starring Richard Armitage and Charlie MurphyThe New York Times bestselling masterpiece a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth ...
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Shallow Grave
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles'An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery Detective Inspector Bill Slider has always been keen on architecture, and The Old Rectory is the kind of hou...
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A Suitable Vengeance
Elizabeth GeorgeInspector Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, feels some trepidation as he introduces his bridetobe to his mother at the ancestral home of Howenstow in Cornwall. But Lynley's...
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Trace
Patricia CornwellThe thirteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The TimesAgainst her own judgem...
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The Golden Egg
Donna Leon'The familiar characters and Venetian location are described with remarkable freshness and, as always, the edifying result is both amusing and thoughtprovoking.' Sunday TelegraphA ...
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
C. S. ForesterThe Third Horatio Hornblower Tale of the SeaApril 1803, and the Peace of Amiens is failing as Horatio Hornblower takes a sloop on a vital reconnaissance mission . . .On the day of ...
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Careless in Red
Elizabeth GeorgeIt is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the SouthWest Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract hims...