L'ispettore Wexford Serie

Questa serie segue il lavoro di un esperto detective inglese che affronta casi complessi in un'ambientazione apparentemente tranquilla, ma spesso ingannevole. Insieme al suo team, svela oscuri segreti e intricate motivazioni nascoste sotto la superficie della vita quotidiana. Con un'attenzione alla psicologia dei personaggi e alle indagini meticolose, offre una lettura avvincente per gli amanti della classica narrativa poliziesca.

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Tascabili Immaginario Fanucci: Con la morte nel cuore
Ruth Rendell
192pagine
7 ore di lettura
"Amore e morte" disse il capo ispettore Wexford. "Sono stati questi gli unici eventi sensazionali nella vita di Margaret Parsons, l'amore e la morte. L'unico problema è che sono entrambi avvenuti nel mio distretto". La polizia sapeva tutto della vita di Margaret Parsons, una vita assolutamente normale, almeno all'apparenza. Margaret era sempre stata una "brava" donna, religiosa, all'antica, rispettabile. L'intera sua esistenza pulita e ordinaria come la sua casa, monotona e sicura come il suo matrimonio. Ma non è la vita di Margaret Parsons che interessa Wexford, quanto la sua morte. Una donna prevedibile e ordinaria ha trovato una morte passionale e violenta, senza motivo, senza alcun indizio.
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Sins of the Father
Ruth Rendell
It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the murderer's beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder -- and often conceals even deeper secrets . . .
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Wolf to the Slaughter
Ruth Rendell
184pagine
7 ore di lettura
Chief Inspector Wexford investigates the circumstances surrounding a blood-soaked hotel room which lacks any other signs of a victim, and the disappearance of a beautiful, promiscuous woman and the bundle of cash she'd had in her pocket.
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Immaginario: La morte del testimone
Ruth Rendell
221pagine
8 ore di lettura
Nella cittadina di Kingsmarkham fervono i preparativi del matrimonio di Jack Pertwee. Charlie Hatton, il migliore amico dello sposo e suo testimone di nozze, ha guidato per undici ore consecutive pur di non mancare alla festa di addio al celibato. Non può immaginare che sta andando incontro alla morte: ed è proprio Wexford, il mattino dopo, a scoprirne per caso il cadavere abbandonato lungo la riva del fiume. Le indagini sull'omicidio di Hatton rivelano una persona dal passato non del tutto cristallino e portano alla luce torbidi segreti, rancori e gelosie, ma nessun sospetto fondato. L'ispettore, che nel frattempo si occupa anche del misterioso incidente automobilistico occorso alla famiglia Fanshawe, dovrà affidarsi all'intuito...
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A Guilty Thing Surprised
Ruth Rendell
256pagine
9 ore di lettura
The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Called in to investigate, Chief Inspector Wexford quickly determines that the Nightingales were considered the perfect couple - wealthy, attractive and without an enemy in the world. Someone who hated - or perhaps loved - her enough to beat her to death.
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No More Dying Then
Ruth Rendell
Detective Mike Burden's wife has just died, and his sister-in-law is staying at his house to help take care of his two children. He is so utterly miserable, and grief stricken, that he can't see how much they all need him to focus himself on his home life. Partially because of his inability to deal with his personal life, when a 5-year-old boy disappears, he throws himself whole-heartedly into the investigation. He becomes over involved with the boy's mother. The recent disappearance of a 12-year-old girl makes the case more worrisome.
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Murder Being Once Done
Ruth Rendell
272pagine
10 ore di lettura
The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. But then he discovers that his nephew Howard is heading the investigation into the macabre murder of Loveday Morgan, whose body was found abandoned in Kenbourne Cemetery.
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Some Lie and Some Die
Ruth Rendell
192pagine
7 ore di lettura
A mutilated body found at a rock festival. In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a charismatic singer who inspires an unwholesome devotion in his followers.Some Lie and Some Dieis a devilishly absorbing novel, in which Wexford's deductive powers come up against the aloof arrogance of pop stardom. With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Shake Hands Forever
Ruth Rendell
99pagine
4 ore di lettura
The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular and respected series of simplified readers for learners of English.
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A Sleeping Life
Ruth Rendell
272pagine
10 ore di lettura
The tenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. And two, how even in death, her deathly grey eyes possess a scornful glare. Wexford's only hunch is that the clues to her murder must lie in her solitary London life.
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Put on by cunning
Ruth Rendell
208pagine
8 ore di lettura
Sir Manuel Carmargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead. Misadventure. An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into the water to be trapped under a lid of ice. Only a glove remained to point to where he lay, one of its fingers rising out of the drifts. There's nothing Chief Inspector Wexford likes better than an open-and-shut case. They're so restful. And yet there are one or two niggling doubts - and the disturbing return of Carmargue's daughter, now a considerable heiress, after an absence of nineteen years. Is Wexford going to listen to that nagging inner voice of his? And if he does, what exactly does he plan to do?
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Omicidio a Thatto Castle
Ruth Rendell
222pagine
8 ore di lettura
Durante un viaggio in Cina l'ispettore Wexford conosce una tranquilla coppia di anziani coniugi, Adam e Adela Knighton. Adam, avvocato in pensione, non sembra insensibile al fascino di un'altra compagna di viaggio, Milborough Ingram. Al ritorno in Inghilterra Adela viene assassinata, apparentemente da uno scassinatore. Wexford però sospetta del marito; peccato che Knighton abbia un alibi di ferro.
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Put on by cunning. An unkindness of ravens
Ruth Rendell
269pagine
10 ore di lettura
Unkindness: the collective word for a group of ravens. They are not particularly predatory birds . . . but neither are they soft and submissive. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. And he certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide . . .
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The Veiled One
Ruth Rendell
312pagine
11 ore di lettura
Chief Inspector Wexford, injured in a car bombing, must rely on Detective Mike Burden to catch a killer in what appears to be a murder without motive Chief Inspector Wexford couldn’t know that the bundle of rags in the parking garage concealed a body. He’d just been doing a bit of light shopping, after all, not looking for dead housewives. Wexford won’t be on the case for long; a car bomb sends him to the hospital, and Inspector Mike Burden must match wits with a would-be murderer. But just how close to the edge of madness must Burden go to catch a killer? With rich characterization Rendell plumbs the depths of human character, revealing the secrets that lie hidden in the most ordinary lives.
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Oscar bestsellers - 453: Oltre il cancello
Ruth Rendell
356pagine
13 ore di lettura
Un triplice omicidio, il ferimento di una ragazza e le tracce dell'assassino che si dissolvono sul limitare del bosco che circonda Tancred House. L'ispettore Wexford confida nella testimonianza di Daisy, la nipote di Davina Flory sopravvissuta per miracolo alla strage. È logico credere a Daisy, è facile intenerirsi di fronte alla sua disperata solitudine. Finchè Wexford non scopre gli squallidi retroscena della vita a Tancred House. Finchè, attraverso un labirinto di sospetti e di menzogne, non si avvicina all'agghiacciante verità. Una trama ad alta tensione. Il romanzo più elegante e crudele di Ruth Rendell.
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La leggerezza del dovere
Ruth Rendell
321pagine
12 ore di lettura
L'ispettore capo Reg Wexford è chiamato ad indagare sull'omicidio di Annette Bystock una riservata, non più giovanissima, quanto "comune", impiegata dell'ufficio assistenza all'occupazione della cittadina di Kingsmarkham, nel Sussex in una afosa estate inglese alla vigilia delle elezioni comunali. Sullo sfondo del problema della disoccupazione che coinvolge più classi sociali e generazioni, quello che appare un delitto passionale, intrecciandosi con le indagini per la scomparsa di Melanie, la figlia ventenne dei coniugi Akande (colti, benestanti, di colore), avvenuta proprio dopo una visita all'ufficio dove lavorava Annette, si allarga alla tematica della convivenza razziale e i suoi pregiudizi, che sommessamente ma consistentemente acquistano evidenza e spessore agli occhi dell'acuto Wexford che sperimenta proprio su se stesso quanto subdolo sia il pregiudizio al ritrovamento del cadavere di un giovane corpo martoriato appartenuto ad una ragazza di colore. Un crimine insospettato nella contemporanea civile Inghilterra (e non solo): la perdita del rispetto della dignità umana e che accomuna le vittime ai carnefici al tragico compiersi del progetto di inevitabile distruzione.
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Road Rage
Ruth Rendell
384pagine
14 ore di lettura
A by-pass is planned in Kingsmarkham - that will destroy its peace and the natural habitat forever. Dora Wexford joins the protest movement. But Wexford must be more circumspect. Trouble is expected. But before the protesters make their presence felt, the
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Harm Done
Ruth Rendell
394pagine
14 ore di lettura
Inspector Wexford confronts the terrifying world of domestic violence when a series of kidnappings leads back to his own daughter's volunteer work at a shelter for battered women
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The Babes in the Wood
Ruth Rendell
320pagine
12 ore di lettura
A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a - well, teen-sitter, I suppose, got back last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they've all drowned.'There hadn't been anything like
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End in Tears
Ruth Rendell
384pagine
14 ore di lettura
A father's worst nightmare. It's first light and George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will -- that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery.
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Not in the Flesh
Ruth Rendell
384pagine
14 ore di lettura
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, and the post-mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. Wexford knows
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The Monster in the Box
Ruth Rendell
When Wexford starts out as a young police officer, he is involved with a murder case where the perpetrator is not brought to justice. All these years, Wexford has harboured suspicions about the possible killer, who suddenly returns to Kingsmarkham. There are other apparently unrelated deaths, and once more Wexford is on the trail to uncover the evidence that will make the crucial connections. Ruth Rendell takes us back in time, not only to resolve a series of crimes, but to show Wexford as a young man, meeting Dora, his future wife, and developing into the unique, instinctive yet methodical detective that he becomes.
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The Vault
Ruth Rendell
368pagine
13 ore di lettura
The twenty-fourth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a mysterious murder case.
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No Man's Nightingale
Ruth Rendell
352pagine
13 ore di lettura
No Man's Nightingale- the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. The woman vicar of St Peter's Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her vicarage. Inspector Wexford is retired, but he retains a relish for solving mysteries especially when they are as close to home as this one is. So when he's asked whether he will assist on the case, he readily agrees. But why did the vicar die? And is anyone else in Kingsmarkham in danger? What Wexford doesn't know is that the killer is far closer than he, or anyone else, thinks.
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