Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Ruth Rendell is interviewed by a reporter in New York City September 28, 2005. RENDELL REUTERS/Seth Wenig LONDON (Reuters) ...

Best-selling crime writer Ruth Rendell, creator of intricately plotted novels and the character Chief Inspector Wexford, died Saturday at the age of 85, the British media reports, quoting her ...

If there were real justice in the world then Ruth Rendell’s final book would have been her penultimate “The Girl Next Door” — a sweet and sexy statement of not going gently into that night. But the ...

Famed British crime writer Ruth Rendell died this past weekend in London. She was 85 and had suffered a stroke in January. Best known for her long-running Inspector Wexford series — which was adapted ...

Bestselling crime novelist Ruth Rendell died Saturday in London, her publisher Penguin Random House announced. She was 85 and had suffered a serious stroke in January. Rendell, who published more than ...

The British author wrote crime novels for 50 years, many featuring Chief Inspector "Reg" Wexford. Rendell died May 2. Originally broadcast in 1989 and 2005. We're remembering British mystery writer ...

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British mystery and crime writer Ruth Rendell — one of the most prolific authors in the genre, with more than 60 novels — has died at age 85 following a stroke in January, her publisher said in a ...

LONDON (AP) — Prolific crime and mystery writer Ruth Rendell, perhaps best known for her Chief Inspector Wexford novels, died Saturday, said her publisher, Penguin Random House. She was 85. The cause ...

When the after-dinner speaker at a tennis club banquet clutched his chest and keeled over dead, one door slammed shut and another flew open for a young writer named Ruth Rendell. Reporting for a local ...

LONDON (AP) – Mystery writer Ruth Rendell, who brought psychological insight and social conscience to the classic British detective story, has died at the age of 85. Publisher Penguin Random House ...