Category Archives: Reg Wexford

>R for Reg and Ruth

>For the letter R in Kerrie´s alphabet meme I would like to revive some posts from last year about Reg Wexford, Ruth Rendell´s long-standing protagonist. I just realised that it was Ruth Rendell´s 80th birthday yesterday(Feb 17th) so my post … Continue reading

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>Weekly Geeks # 13. National Poetry Month

>This post is dedicated to Mike Burden & the Weekly Geeks. It is based on Ruth Rendell, Put on by Cunning (1981) and a former post on Reg Wexford (see ´No More Dying Then´). An inspector called Mike Burden Vexed … Continue reading

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>Meet Chief Inspector Reg Wexford # 3.

>While you are waiting for my Bait-in-the-Box review, here is a post which may appeal to Rendell lovers. It deals with three Rendell novels written in the 1970s. For my first post about the 1960s look here, and you can … Continue reading

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>Meet Chief Inspector Reg Wexford # 2.

>See post 1 here.This second post should have covered the 1970s, but as I am – apparently – unable to skim novels I like and write about them in a few words, I will begin with these three from the … Continue reading

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>While we are waiting …

>Perhaps there are still visitors who want to try to guess this week´s bait so this post is just a commercial for a post which will be brought some day. Here are the six Wexford novels Ruth Rendell wrote during … Continue reading

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>Meet Chief Inspector Reg Wexford # 1.

>The point of this post is not to review Ruth Rendell´s novels, but to scrutinize her long-standing detective, Reg Wexford, beginning in the 1960s. So for this first part I have re-read her four first crime novels – and chosen … Continue reading

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