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	Ruth Rendell
		Ruth Rendell is the author of Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird.
		Ruth Rendell also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark Adapted Eye is the most famous.
		From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell (2000) by Susan Rowland
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rendell alternated these crime genres until 1986, and the publication of her first psychological novel under the name of Barbara Vine.
		Ruth Barbara Grasemann was born in 1930 in London as the only child of two teachers.
		Rendell compounds the pressure she puts on the traditional detective genre by similarly exploiting fairy tales and myths.
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	Ruth Rendell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, (born February 17, 1930), is a British best-selling mystery and psychological crime writer, often called the Queen of Crime.
		Rendell is famous for her elegant prose and sharp insights into the human mind, as well as her ability to create cogent plots and characters.
		Rendell has also injected the social changes of the last 40 years into her work, bringing awareness to such issues as domestic violence and the change in the status of women.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruth_Rendell (759 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Dark lady of whodunnits
		Rendell's characters often live on the margins - of society and sanity - and a constant theme is how communities assimilate those who have lost their way and how they manage the quiet threat they can pose.
		Rendell cannot abide unfairness, and she combines this with a high-minded and proactive sense of responsibility.
		Rendell's subtlety and simplicity are the foundations of her profound talent, argues the writer and critic Joan Smith, who says "Her direct and unadorned style is deceptively simple.
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	Telegraph \| Arts \| Her dark materials
		Rendell is 75, fit and upright, incredibly young-looking for her age, with a humour dry as a French chablis.
		This is true of the Ruth Rendells, which always have a murder, but is particularly evident in her Barbara Vines.
		She and Rendell's father, Arthur Grasemann (they were both school teachers based in east London), had a terrible marriage, continually shrieking at each other, giving each other the silent treatment and threatening to leave.
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	Bulletin - Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since Rendell started writing in her early 20s, she has produced a prodigious number of novels – somewhere over 50 – ranging from traditional puzzlers (invariably solved by her favourite sleuth, Inspector Wexford) to chilling, somewhat gothic thrillers, which may or may not involve a mysterious death but never a simple solution.
		Rendell herself is an only child of two teachers: he English, she Swedish, though her mother died relatively young, of multiple sclerosis.
		Rendell is a woman of strict precision, producing at least one novel each year of her long writing career, and has just completed her latest manuscript, a Barbara Vine, on the subject of schizophrenia.
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	Mystery Guide - Road Rage by Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rendell's work needs a certain amount and perhaps type of life experience to fully appreciate -- but my specific problem is that her policemen are, by the standards of my reality, little better than Keystone Kops.
		Rendell included it for emotional impact, but the particular emotions I felt were shock at Wexford's brutish lack of technique, and annoyance at the author's sloppiness.
		Rendell is also a complete master of the description of gesture; she tells you more about and through a moment of eye-contact, a speaking style, a quirk of carriage, than one would think possible.
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	Inspector Wexford: Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruth Rendell discusses the TV adaptations of her work.
		Ruth Rendell is one of Britain’s most prolific and interesting contemporary writers.
		In July 1997 she was conferred a life peerage and appointed to the House of Lords as Baroness Rendell of Babergh.
	www.tabardroad.co.uk /ruth-rendell.php (431 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Rottweiler - Ruth Rendell - Hardcover
		Longtime Ruth Rendell fans will be delighted with The Rottweiler, a masterfully complex psychological thriller powered by a cast of brilliantly developed characters, heart-wrenching subplots, and enough insight into the machinations of the criminal mind to satisfy even the darkest heart.
		The Rottweiler is an especially sure-handed mystery novel from Ruth Rendell, arriving 40 years after the publication of her first one.
		Several individuals seem sane yet on edge, which obviously can be a result of the murder spree in their neighborhood, but also leads readers and Inez to wonder which one is the killer although the former will not rule out the latter though the culprit appears to be a male.
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	Ruth Rendell
		Ruth Rendell (1930-...), an English author is internationally famous for her detective novels and stories as well as suspense novels.
		Ruth Rendell is the ultimate anatomist of the human psyche, probing behind public facades to reveal private torment and distorted visions that change the way we view the world around us.
		Ruth Rendell is one of those rare writers who genius makes you look at the world in a different way...
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	Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruth Rendell has won numerous awards, including three Edgars and the Grand Master Award from Mystery Writers of America; and four Gold Daggers, one Silver Dagger, and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writers’ Association.
		In The Babes in the Wood Ruth Rendell brings her keen psychological insight and rigorous moral sense to bear on Wexford’s assumptions about the way people behave, including his own family, as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of two teenagers and their babysitter.
		As Rendell pulls together the colourful strands of these various lives, a pattern emerges, and their ties to the series of vicious murders become ever tighter.
	www.randomhouse.ca /mysterybooks/ruthrendell.html (618 words)

	Daily Blague: Ruth Rendell and the Daily Blague
		And while I like some Rendells better than others (and all the earlier Vines quite a lot), it has to be stated that their quality is consistently good.
		The first is a "plain" Ruth Rendell that demonstrates her grasp of the desperately outclasses male mind in distress.
		The Wexfords are good for crime junkies who rely on the ground rules to tell them where they're going; in the "plain" Ruth Rendells and in the Barbara Vines, there are no ground rules at all, and it is not unsual for the officers of justice to play a notional part in the proceedings.
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	The Books of Ruth Rendell
		Ruth Rendell is my favorite author and I've read everything she's written; I prefer her psychological thrillers to her Wexfords.
		Rendell is 75, fit and upright, incredibly young-looking for her age, with a humor dry as a French chablis.
		Rendell's phobias seems to be the legacy of her Swedish mother, Ebba, who fell ill with multiple sclerosis that went undiagnosed for years.
	users.bestweb.net /~foosie/rendell.htm (1560 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Woman with a loaded gun
		Rendell's work might only produce individual pockets, instead of the city as a whole.
		The secrets that Rendell's characters clutch to their chests, like Fagin hoarding his most precious treasures under his grimy greatcoat, are hidden in quiet neighborhoods, placid streets, rambling old houses.
		The London of the 1960s in "The House of Stairs" and of the 1980s in "King Solomon's Carpet" (one of her books that can reasonably be called a masterpiece) have the nocturnal ominousness of Gothic novels set in the city a hundred years earlier.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2004/12/02/rendell (284 words)

	Powell's Books - The Rottweiler by Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"I hate to say that Rendell disdains genre convention or 'transcends the genre.' That would imply that the form she's working in is by its very nature unworthy, and only hacks work for 40 years in a form they disrespect.
		The first young woman murdered had a bite mark on her neck, prompting the media to dub her killer "The Rottweiler." As the number of killings grows to two, three, and beyond, that nickname sticks, even though it has become clear that the original bite was incidental.
		Ruth Rendell is in top form here as she deftly propels the narrative, alternating between the inner life of a compulsive killer and the daily affairs of those who live nearby, unknowing yet somehow aware of the unnerving shadow of his presence.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=1400051908 (480 words)

	Amazon.com: The Crocodile Bird: Books: Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruth Rendell is one the living stars of modern British detective fiction.
		It is entirely different in tone from the norm of Rendell finales: it is less catastrophic, and unlike many of her books little of the restrained brutality manages to seep out into the conclusion.
		Rendell shows us the quirks of our world, and she makes the mundane aspects of it which we are all so familiar with seem magical and remarkable, when seen from the eyes of one who has never known it before.
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	Ruth Rendell -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The monologuist and monodramatist Ruth Draper was acclaimed throughout the United States and Europe for her delicate but vivid character sketches, which she performed on a bare stage with few props.
		Canadian author Ruth Nichols is primarily known for her compelling juvenile fantasies involving various psychological and physical quests that lead the characters to a better understanding of good and evil.
		Percy and Ruth Crawford and the Birth of Televangelism
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9104748 (703 words)

	Demons In Her View: The Ruth Rendell Information Site
		Rendell appeared with her friend and fellow author PD James at the 2004 Cheltenham Festival of Literature on October 15.
		Rendell revealed that she has the idea for her next Barbara Vine novel, but hasn't done much work on it, which would imply a 2007 release at the earliest.
		Ruth Rendell is ranked at #20 in the latest list of most-borrowed authors from UK libraries, covering the period July 2004-June 2005.
	www.gusworld.com.au /books/rendell (750 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Adam and Eve and Pinch Me: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Rendell's speciality is her ability to enter the psychopathology of her characters and make us not only understand their often murderous behaviour, but also vicariously participate.
		Rendell has always been a writer who likes to take risks, and the danger here was that Adam and Eve and Pinch Me would end up as a smorgasbord of supernatural and crime elements, each cancelling the other out.
		Ruth rendell, Queen of Crime, and an author with enough CWA Daggers to stock an armoury, returns to the psychological thriller after three years.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/009179434X (988 words)

	Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		'Ruth Rendell is the ultimate anatomist of the human psyche, probing behind public facades to reveal private torment and distorted visions that change the way we view the world around us' Val McDermid.
		Located in the area around Regent’s Park, Ruth Rendell creates an atmospherically charged universe, where a young woman’s life is in danger both from the middle class world she knows and another world of the dispossessed and deranged.
		Ruth Rendell is married and lives in a sixteenth-century farmhouse in Suffolk.
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	Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine, Creator of Inspector Wexford Mysteries - Mystery Books
		When she does sits down at one or other of her four computers, it has to be when she doesn't have to head off for the House of Lords (she was made a Labour peer in 1997), walking some of the way and completing the journey by tube.
		She decided to write fiction and, after her first six novels were rejected, From Doon With Death was finally published in 1964 and marked the birth of Inspector Wexford: 52 years old, the very prototype of an actor playing a top-brass policeman.
		Rendell has won three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America - two for short story (1975, 1984) and one writing as Barbara Vine for the novel A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986).
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art14569.asp (376 words)

	Random House \| Books \| The Rottweiler by Ruth Rendell
		Ruth Rendell is one of those writers one reads for the sheer joy of the way she puts words together.
		"Rendell is a master of the tires-on-ice moment, the moment when the intersecting elements begin their inexorable slide into calamity....
		Ruth Rendell has been awarded three Edgars for best novel from the Mystery Writers of America, as well as the Grand Master Award.
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	Random House : Author Details for Ruth Rendell
		Random House : Author Details for Ruth Rendell
		Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, The New Girl Friend; a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986.
		In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
	www.randomhouse.co.uk /catalog/author.htm?authorID=1930 (97 words)

	The Rottweiler by Ruth Rendell - review
		Ruth Rendell once again proves that she is uniquely talented with her latest psychological thriller, The Rottweiler.
		As usual, Rendell writes with dark humor, cynicism, and deep insight into the many ways that people destroy themselves and others, and she holds the reader in the palm of her hand throughout.
		Rendell's effortless writing is both lucid and beautifully descriptive, she maintains a high level of suspense until the last page is turned, and she has an unusual and thought-provoking perspective on human nature.
	mostlyfiction.com /mystery/rendell.htm (2192 words)

	Ruth Rendell books reviews
		Three seemingly unrelated story-threads, a famous diary, the transcript of a murder trial, and a contemporary narrative by the diarist's granddaughter, are brilliantly woven together to shed new light on a grisly early 1900s murder and the identity of a child who went missing at the time.
		This was Ruth Rendell's first published book and her reader's first introduction to Chief Inspector Wexford and Inspector Burden and the Sussex district of Kingsmarkham.
		In perhaps her most exciting Inspector Wexford mystery, English writer Ruth Rendell provides great fare in “Kissing the Gunner's Daughter.” Three bodies are discovered on a country estate and one survivor lives to report the crime to the police.
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	Ruth Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Crime novelist Ruth Rendell was born on 17 February 1930 in London, and educated at Loughton County High School, Essex.
		Ruth Rendell was awarded a CBE in 1996.
		A Life Peerage was conferred on her in 1997 as Baroness Rendell of Babergh.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors?p=auth215&state=index=r (493 words)

	eBay - ruth rendell, Fiction Books, Nonfiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruth Rendell The Speaker of Mandarin Harper Audiobooks
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	Mystery Ink: Tribute to Ruth Rendell
		If you pick up a book by Rendell, it will be one of three types: an entry in the Inspector Wexford series, a psychological thriller, or a novel written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine.
		Crimes lay hidden, all manner of secrets lie undiscovered, and years later (anything from one or two, to the hundred plus which were the time-frame for The Blood Doctor) they start to itch and shiver beneath the surface of people's lives, and cannot be ignored.
		They're certainly not real police procedural novels -- Rendell herself has said that she has never so much as spoken to a real policeman, except for when her house was burgled -- and, yes, Wexford certainly hasn't really aged.
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