Read by Julian Glover. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 48 kbps. — Duration 06:32:14. In a gloomy cellar, the figure of a beautiful, pale woman makes no move when the man advances on her from the shadows, puts his hands around her neck and strangles her. Arthur Johnson is a mild-mannered, shy man who has never known how to talk to women. His resulting loneliness has twisted his...
Read by Christopher Ravenscroft. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 05:13:16. Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague, Inspector Burden, find...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 06:51:36. Wexford had every reason to remember the Painter case - it was the first murder he'd ever handled on his own. There had been no doubts about the case, until now. Someone wants the case reopened, and they want Wexford proved wrong.
Read by David Threlfall. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:36:31. Two damaged children: Teddy Brex, whom no-one loved, and so found it easier to relate to objects or things which never let him down; and Francine Hill, who was discovered sitting by the body of her mother, her skirt red with blood. She couldn’t tell the police or her father anything to help track...
Read by David Threlfall. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 12:36:31. Two damaged children: Teddy Brex, whom no-one loved, and so found it easier to relate to objects or things which never let him down; and Francine Hill, who was discovered sitting by the body of her mother, her skirt red with blood. She couldn’t tell the police or her father anything to help track...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 05:50:21. The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. With nothing more to go on than what appeared to be a sardonic gleam in the wide and staring eyes of the victim, It’s time for Wexford and his team to get pro-active. From a seemingly unremarkable death comes an intricate web of lies...
Read by Michael Bryant. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 08:07:27. Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford - a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex.
Read by Ric Jerrom. — Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd, 2015. — 64 kbps. — Duration 07:12:17. When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighbourhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was...
Read by Christopher Ravenscroft. — Random House Audio. — Duration 03:00:00. Abridged. A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery. A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while... It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it...
Read by Dermot Crowley. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 09:10:21. In Rendell's evocative portrayal of West London, the slums of Notting Hill Gate and the mews houses of Holland Park may, geographically, only be streets apart but, socially, they are worlds apart. When these two worlds collide, the repercussions are fatal. Guy, from a council flat in Notting Hill...
Read by Dermot Crowley. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 09:10:21. In Rendell's evocative portrayal of West London, the slums of Notting Hill Gate and the mews houses of Holland Park may, geographically, only be streets apart but, socially, they are worlds apart. When these two worlds collide, the repercussions are fatal. Guy, from a council flat in Notting Hill...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 14:27:19. Two young girls disappear then return home unharmed some days later. Chief Inspector Wexford is concerned about a pedophile who has been recently released back into the community but cannot foresee a series of serious crimes waiting to happen.
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 14:27:19. Two young girls disappear then return home unharmed some days later. Chief Inspector Wexford is concerned about a pedophile who has been recently released back into the community but cannot foresee a series of serious crimes waiting to happen.
Read by Robin Bailey. — Audible Studios, 2014. — 48 kbps. — Duration 12:02:11. The massacre at Tancred House seems at first to be the work of a burglar, panicked into killing. But Chief Inspector Wexford believes there are links with the murder of a Kingsmarkham detective some ten months earlier.
Read by Robin Bailey. — Audible Studios, 2014. — 48 kbps. — Duration 12:02:11. The massacre at Tancred House seems at first to be the work of a burglar, panicked into killing. But Chief Inspector Wexford believes there are links with the murder of a Kingsmarkham detective some ten months earlier.
Read by Ric Jerrom. — Random House AudioBooks, 2011. — 64 kbps. — Duration 07:27:31. Alan Groombridge had a fantasy. Husband to a woman he didn't like, father of two children he had never wanted, and manager of the second smallest branch of the Anglian-Victoria bank in the country, Alan was doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine. All that saved him was that...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 05:30:38. Innocence is in the eye of the beholder...A collection of short stories, ranging from crimes of passion and violence in Kingsmarkham to a bizarre murder in Yugoslavia, featuring the world-famous Detective Chief Inspector Wexford. A crime omnibus from the world's greatest living mystery writer, Ruth...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Duration 08:40:00. Unabridged. Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Duration 08:40:00. Unabridged. Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Duration 08:40:00. Unabridged. Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, when Wexford was a young police officer, a woman called Elsie Carroll had been found strangled in her bedroom. Although many still had their...
Read by Robin Bailey. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 05:57:28. A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2013. — 32 kbps. — Duration 08:42:23. A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and wanted to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism have played a factor in her...
Read by Robin Bailey. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 06:41:33. An Inspector Wexford mystery. On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappears and is never seen again. Then, on a warm October day, 5-year-old John Lawrence fails to come home, and evil, mad, taunting letters begin, which make the worst, unspoken imaginings a brutal reality.
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 48 kbps. — Duration 09:52:31. Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury-a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is...
Read by Lindsay Duncan. — BBC Word for World. — Duration 08:42:00. Unabridged. Nine deliciously frightening and exquisitely crafted tales of psychological terror from Ruth Rendell. A quick read, interesting stories, as it says on the catalog page - psychological fiction. Piranha to Scurfy .
Read by Lindsay Duncan. — BBC Word for World. — Duration 08:42:00. Unabridged. Nine deliciously frightening and exquisitely crafted tales of psychological terror from Ruth Rendell. A quick read, interesting stories, as it says on the catalog page - psychological fiction. Piranha to Scurfy (continued). Computer Séance. Fair Exchange. The Wink. Catamount. Walter's Leg. The...
Read by Lindsay Duncan. — BBC Word for World. — Duration 08:42:00. Unabridged. Nine deliciously frightening and exquisitely crafted tales of psychological terror from Ruth Rendell. A quick read, interesting stories, as it says on the catalog page - psychological fiction. - The Astronomical Scarf - High Mysterious Union
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Duration 04:30:00. As well as Ruth Rendell’s customary expertise with the narrative demands of crime fiction, Portobello provides a colourful and eccentric portrait of one of the most distinctive areas of the capital, the Portobello district of West London. To both Londoners and visitors, the areas is lively and exciting, but there is a level of...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Duration 04:30:00. As well as Ruth Rendell’s customary expertise with the narrative demands of crime fiction, Portobello provides a colourful and eccentric portrait of one of the most distinctive areas of the capital, the Portobello district of West London. To both Londoners and visitors, the areas is lively and exciting, but there is a level of...
Read by Charles Kay. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 06:54:41. Sir Manual Camargue had just announced his intention of taking a second wife, 50 years his junior. On the same cold winter's day, he died as a result of what was surely a tragic accident. But Wexford doubts that Camargue's death came by misadventure.
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 11:20:38. A bypass is planned in Kingsmarkham, but before the protestors make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young woman is discovered. Burden thinks he knows the identity of the murderer, but Wexford is not convinced.
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 11:20:38. A bypass is planned in Kingsmarkham, but before the protestors make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young woman is discovered. Burden thinks he knows the identity of the murderer, but Wexford is not convinced.
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 06:43:48. This case is proving a difficult one for Chief Inspector Wexford. All he has to go on is his own intuitive suspicions. Was he becoming cynical and untrusting or was this one of the most ingenious crimes he had ever tackled?
Read by Christopher Ravenscroft. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 10:53:28. Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case. Melanie, just down from university but unable to find a...
Read by Christopher Ravenscroft. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 10:53:28. Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case. Melanie, just down from university but unable to find a...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 06:08:24. For a while the music Festival in Kingsmarkham was going well. The sun shone, the groups played and everyone - except a few angry neighbours - seemed to enjoy themselves. Then the weather changed, and a young couple made a gruesome discovery. In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in...
Read by Christian Rodska. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 48 kbps. — Duration 10:42:26. Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections - it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage, but these agents are only schoolboys engaged in harmless play. Not that John Creevey knows this. To him, the messages he decodes with painstaking care are the communications...
Read by Christian Rodska. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 48 kbps. — Duration 10:42:26. Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections - it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage, but these agents are only schoolboys engaged in harmless play. Not that John Creevey knows this. To him, the messages he decodes with painstaking care are the communications...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 12:09:56. With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 12:09:56. With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all...
Read by Robin Bailey. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 06:04:36. 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...
Read by William Gaminara. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 48 kbps. — Duration 08:26:31. Philip Wardman had more than just the ordinary squeamishness where death was concerned. Yet he could hardly avoid the suspicious disappearance of his sister's friend Rebecca Neave, especially when everyone was ascribing the cause to murder. Philip's feminine ideal is the statue of the Roman...
Read by Penelope Keith. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 128 kbps. — Duration 04:47:27. With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Ruth Rendell indicates hidden depths in ordinary events and creates a sense of profound unease. The stories are: 'A Pair of Yellow Lilies', 'Paperwork', 'Mother’s Hel'p, 'Long Live the Queen', 'Dying Happy', 'The Copper Peacock', 'Weeds', 'The...
Read by Penelope Keith. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 128 kbps. — Duration 04:47:27. With deceptive economy in these nine short stories, Ruth Rendell indicates hidden depths in ordinary events and creates a sense of profound unease. The stories are: 'A Pair of Yellow Lilies', 'Paperwork', 'Mother’s Hel'p, 'Long Live the Queen', 'Dying Happy', 'The Copper Peacock', 'Weeds', 'The...
Read by Juliet Stevenson. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 10:48:26. Eve and Liza, Mother and Daughter, live a quiet life in their remote home; a rustic gatehouse of a country mansion. At first glance their lives appear quite ordinary, except that Liza has almost no knowledge of the outside world, has never played with a child her own age and has witnessed her...
Read by Juliet Stevenson. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 10:48:26. Eve and Liza, Mother and Daughter, live a quiet life in their remote home; a rustic gatehouse of a country mansion. At first glance their lives appear quite ordinary, except that Liza has almost no knowledge of the outside world, has never played with a child her own age and has witnessed her...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2012. — 48 kbps. — Duration 12:32:47. The first girl had a bite mark on her neck, but they traced the DNA to her boyfriend. But the tabloids got hold of the story and called the killer The Rottweiler and the name stuck. The latest murder takes place very near Inez Ferry's antique shop in Marylebone. When the Rottweiler’s trinkets start...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2012. — 48 kbps. — Duration 12:32:47. The first girl had a bite mark on her neck, but they traced the DNA to her boyfriend. But the tabloids got hold of the story and called the killer The Rottweiler and the name stuck. The latest murder takes place very near Inez Ferry's antique shop in Marylebone. When the Rottweiler’s trinkets start...
Read by Carole Boyd. — Audible Studios, 2012. — 32 kbps. — Duration 08:15:33. Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street inhabited by the rich, and serviced by the not so rich. The hired help, a motley assortment of au pairs, drivers, and cleaners, decide to form the St Zita Society (Zita was the patron saint of domestic...
Read by Simon Russell Beale. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 48 kbps. — Duration 06:49:43. Louise North doesn't care what the neighbors think. She lets her lover leave his car just outside her house in broad daylight, telling everyone he is a central heating salesman. Still, it's a shock when she's found shot dead, covered by the equally dead body of the "salesman." It was his third...
Read by Michael Bryant. — Audible Studios, 2012. — 48 kbps. — Duration 06:11:23. There were some things about Chief Inspector Wexford's trip to China that he could never have dreamt of: That an old woman would haunt him from one city to the next. That a man would be tragically drowned. Or that, back in England, he would be investigating the murder of one of his fellow tourists.
Read by Imelda Staunton. — Bolinda Audio, 2014. — 48 kbps. — Duration 08:43:43. Once when Benet was about fourteen they had been in a train together, alone in the carriage, and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time now since Benet had seen her mad mother, and when Mopsa arrived at Heathrow, looking drab and colorless in a dowdy grey suit, Benet...
Read by Nigel Anthony. — Audible Studios, 2011. — 48 kbps. — Duration 08:41:34. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and their daughter, Sheila’s, coach house in Hampstead. Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits of a more relaxed lifestyle, he misses being the law. But a chance...
Read by Robin Bailey. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 09:01:31. Concealed by a shroud of dirty brown velvet was what looked like a heap of rags. In a desolate subterranean car park of a Shopping Centre, Dorothy Sanders pulled back the velvet curtain revealing the grim discovery of a woman’s body. Inspector Michael Burden, for a while conducting the investigation...
Read by Sian Thomas. — Audible Studios, 2013. — 32 kbps. — Duration 09:57:41. The man who had died was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lives upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy drowned, has disappeared. Ismay...
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith. — Duration 03:00:00. Abridged. Thirteen Steps Down (2004) is a psychological thriller novel. Mix Cellini is a lonely, maladjusted young man who works for a company that repairs exercise equipment, and lives in the upstairs apartment of an old Victorian house on Notting Hill. While his reclusive landlady, Gwendoline Chawcer, spends her time reading and...
Read by Brian Cox. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 48 kbps. — Duration 05:38:25. Gossip in tiny Linchester is raised to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the night of his beautiful wife's birthday party. The whole neighborhood was there, witness to the horrible attack of wasps Peter suffered at the end of the evening. But did Peter die of the stings? Dr Greenleaf thinks...
Read by Robin Bailey. — Audible Studios, 2009. — 48 kbps. — Duration 05:55:27. Anita Margolis had vanished. There was no body, no crime, nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and a name. A pattern soon emerged to the investigation. Not only had Anita been wealthy and flighty, she had been thoroughly immortal, too.
Read by Harriet Walter. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 56 kbps. — Duration 11:46:22. Like most families, they had their secrets...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the '50s was not kind to...
Read by Harriet Walter. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 56 kbps. — Duration 11:46:22. Like most families, they had their secrets...and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the '50s was not kind to...
Chivers Audio Books, 1996. — Duration approx. 10 hours. — ISBN: 0745163386. A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) is the first novel under the pseudonym Barbara Vine by the British author Ruth Rendell that won the MBA Edgar. This is the second, a mystery like all her works, transcending the genre. Evoked in beautifully ambient writing, the setting is a rural estate, Wyvis Hall, which Adam...
Chivers Audio Books, 1996. — Duration approx. 10 hours. — ISBN: 0745163386. A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986) is the first novel under the pseudonym Barbara Vine by the British author Ruth Rendell that won the MBA Edgar. This is the second, a mystery like all her works, transcending the genre. Evoked in beautifully ambient writing, the setting is a rural estate, Wyvis Hall, which Adam...
Read by Harriet Walter. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 96 kbps. — Duration 14:15:12. It is 1905. Asta and her husband, Rasmus, have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over 70 years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere...
Read by Harriet Walter. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 96 kbps. — Duration 14:15:12. It is 1905. Asta and her husband, Rasmus, have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over 70 years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere...
Read by Harriet Walter. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 96 kbps. — Duration 14:15:12. It is 1905. Asta and her husband, Rasmus, have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over 70 years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere...
Read by Robert Powell. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 15:23:17. The First Lord Nanther, expert in blood diseases, particularly the royal disease of Heamophilia, and favoured physician to Queen Victoria, clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography. But when his great-grandson, Martin Nanther begins to research his life for a biography, the...
Read by Robert Powell. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 15:23:17. The First Lord Nanther, expert in blood diseases, particularly the royal disease of Heamophilia, and favoured physician to Queen Victoria, clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography. But when his great-grandson, Martin Nanther begins to research his life for a biography, the...
Read by Robert Powell. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 64 kbps. — Duration 15:23:17. The First Lord Nanther, expert in blood diseases, particularly the royal disease of Heamophilia, and favoured physician to Queen Victoria, clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography. But when his great-grandson, Martin Nanther begins to research his life for a biography, the...
Read by Juliet Stevenson. — Audible Studios, 2010. — 32 kbps. — Duration 12:02:14. Unlike the other residents of Middleton Hall, Stella is elegant, smart, and in control. Only Jenny, her care assistant, knows that she harbours a painful secret, and only she can prevent Stella from carrying it to the grave. As the women talk, Jenny pieces together the answers to many questions...
Read by Finty Williiams. Unabridged. From three-time Edgar Award winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our society's taboos. When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House....
Read by Finty Williiams. Unabridged. From three-time Edgar Award winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our society's taboos. When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House....
Read by Finty Williiams. Unabridged. From three-time Edgar Award winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our society's taboos. When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House....
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