Inspektor Wexford Seria

Inspektor Wexford, doświadczony detektyw z Anglii, staje przed złożonymi sprawami w pozornie spokojnym, ale często zwodniczym otoczeniu. Wraz ze swoim zespołem odkrywa mroczne sekrety i skomplikowane motywy ukryte pod powierzchnią zwyczajnego życia. Skupiając się na psychologii postaci i skrupulatnym śledztwie, seria przyciąga miłośników klasycznej literatury kryminalnej.

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Z najlepszymi życzeniami śmierci
Ruth Rendell
256 stron
9 godzin czytania
Zwykłe życie. Niezwykła śmierć. Margaret Parsons – dbająca o męża i swój ukochany ogród gospodyni domowa ze spokojnego miasteczka Kingsmarkham – nie wyróżnia się absolutnie niczym szczególnym. Jednak z jakiegoś powodu zostaje brutalnie zamordowana, a jej zwłoki - porzucone w pobliskim lesie. Nie mając żadnych sensownych wskazówek i wiedząc o życiu ofiary tylko tyle, że było nudne, nadinspektor Wexford rozpoczyna śledztwo, w wyniku którego odkrywa tajemnicę Margaret – kolekcję rzadkich książek, z których każda ma dedykację napisaną przez osobę, podpisującą się jako „Doon”. W miarę rozwoju postępowania Wexford zagłębia się w przeszłość zarówno Margaret Parsons, jak i całej lokalnej społeczności. Kim jest tajemniczy Doon? I czy w odpowiedzi na to pytanie kryje się rozwiązanie pierwszej sprawy kryminalnej Wexforda?
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Grzechy ojców
Ruth Rendell
288 stron
11 godzin czytania
To była brutalna, okrutna zbrodnia, popełniona szesnaście lat temu… Po tym, jak zmasakrowano toporem bezradną staruszkę w jej własnym domu, Herbert Painter, złota rączka pani Primero, został osądzony i skazany. Nadinspektor Wexford jest pewien, że powieszono właściwego człowieka. Jednak wielebny Archery ma wątpliwości… ponieważ jego syn zamierza poślubić piękną, błyskotliwą córkę Paintera. Pomału, krok po kroku, zaczyna odkrywać tajemnice z przeszłości i dochodzi do konkluzji, że czasami zbrodnia rodzi zbrodnię… Mieszając się w życie świadków, którzy wiele lat temu byli przesłuchiwani w sprawie o morderstwo pani Primero, budzi coś więcej niż duchy przeszłości.
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Wolf to the Slaughter
Ruth Rendell
184 strony
7 godzin czytania
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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Wilk na rzeź
Ruth Rendell
272 strony
10 godzin czytania
Anita Margolis przepadła. Mroczna i elegancka, o charakterze równie tajemniczym, jak jej niespodziewane zniknięcie. Jednak skoro nie ma ciała, ani też najwyraźniej przestępstwa, pozornie nie ma nad czym pracować. Dopóki do Wexforda nie trafia anonimowy list informujący, że w noc zniknięcia Anity została zabita dziewczyna o imieniu Ann. Wexford i inspektor Burden zmuszeni są podjąć śledztwo na podstawie tej jednej, wątpliwej wskazówki. Wkrótce odkrywają, że Anita to zamożna, lekkomyślna i całkowicie pozbawiona moralności kobieta. Burden ma bardzo konkretną teorię na temat tego, co się jej przytrafiło. Wexford natomiast ma własne podejrzenia.
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A Guilty Thing Surprised
Ruth Rendell
256 stron
9 godzin czytania
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
272 strony
10 godzin czytania
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
192 strony
7 godzin czytania
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
99 stron
4 godziny czytania
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
The middle-aged woman lying on the footpath is biggish and unattractive. Yet even in death her eyes hold a defiant look. Everyone in this Kingsmarkham neighborhood knew her name was Rhoda Comfrey and that she was down from London visiting her invalid father. But when Inspector Wexford looks further, he finds Miss Comfrey's life for the past twenty years is a complete mystery. She leaves behind no address, no job, no banker, no friends. Wexford's only clue to her killer is an elegant wallet from a posh London shop...but his instinct tells him that behind this murder lies a tangled web of the most sordid sort.
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Put on by cunning
Ruth Rendell
208 stron
8 godzin czytania
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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Speaker of Mandarin
Ruth Rendell
213 stron
8 godzin czytania
Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. After their return to England, one of his fellow tourists is found murdered. As he questions other members of the group, Wexford finds secrets of greed, treachery, theft, and adultery, leading the distressed inspector to ask not who is innocent, but who is least guilty . . .
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An unkindness of ravens
Ruth Rendell
272 strony
10 godzin czytania
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
312 stron
11 godzin czytania
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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Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
Ruth Rendell
Called to Tancred House, to a scene of ghastly carnage, Chief Inspector Wexford must bring his considerable detective skills to bear on a case with no witnesses, two suspects who have vanished into thin air, conflicting clues, and a kaleidoscope of motives.
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Simisola
Ruth Rendell
352 strony
13 godzin czytania
Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Melanie, the local doctor's daughter - Chief Inspector Wexford takes a personal interest in the case___
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Road Rage
Ruth Rendell
384 strony
14 godzin czytania
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
480 stron
17 godzin czytania
Two young girls disappear, but return home unharmed some days later. Around the same time, a convicted paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of an estate in Kingsmarkham are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their
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The Babes in the Wood
Ruth Rendell
320 stron
12 godzin czytania
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
384 strony
14 godzin czytania
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
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 sheet. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs.
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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
368 stron
13 godzin czytania
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
352 strony
13 godzin czytania
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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Means of Evil & Other Stories
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Ruth Rendell
176 stron
7 godzin czytania
Here are five classic Wexford cases that display his remarkable ingenuity — and that of his creator. Ranging from the more everyday crimes of passion and violence in quiet Kingsmarkham, to a bizarre murder in Yugoslavia, each is a case which challenges Detective Chief Inspector Wexford's considerable imagination and resourcefulness, and the patient reasoning of the long suffering Burden.
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