The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

1. S01E01Wolf to the Slaughter: Part OneAugust 2, 1987—One evening, someone messes up a love-nest on a side street in a small country town. The carpet is soaked with human blood, but there is no
2. S01E02Wolf to the Slaughter: Part TwoSeptember 9, 1987—
3. S01E03Wolf to the Slaughter: Part ThreeAugust 16, 1987—
4. S01E04Wolf to the Slaughter: Part FourAugust 23, 1987—

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part OneJune 19, 1988—Wexford finds he is dealing with a very nasty case when nature-loving Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered on one of her nightly walks through
2. S02E02A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part TwoJune 26, 1988—
3. S02E03A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part ThreeJuly 3, 1988—
4. S02E04Shake Hands Forever: Part OneSeptember 23, 1988—Angela Hathall is murdered, but Wexford can find no motive and no suspect. Maybe she picked up a stranger who killed her?The line Wexford fo
5. S02E05Shake Hands Forever: Part TwoSeptember 30, 1988—
6. S02E06Shake Hands Forever: Part ThreeOctober 7, 1988—

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

1. S03E01No More Dying Then: Part OneOctober 22, 1989—The Kingsmarkham police investigate the disappearance of John Lawrence, a five-year-old boy.Seven-and-a-half months after he goes missing, m
2. S03E02No More Dying Then: Part TwoOctober 29, 1989—
3. S03E03No More Dying Then: Part ThreeNovember 5, 1989—
4. S03E04A Sleeping Life: Part OneNovember 12, 1989—Wexford investigates when the dead body of a middle aged woman is found in a hedge - but there are no clues to the woman's identity, let alo
5. S03E05A Sleeping Life: Part TwoNovember 19, 1989—
6. S03E06A Sleeping Life: Part ThreeNovember 26, 1989—

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

1. S04E01Some Lie and Some Die: Part OneSeptember 30, 1990—The Kingsmarkham rock festival is going smoothly until the disfigured body of of a local girl, thought to be living in London, is found in a
2. S04E02Some Lie and Some Die: Part TwoOctober 7, 1990—
3. S04E03Some Lie and Some Die: Part ThreeOctober 14, 1990—
4. S04E04The Best Man to Die: Part OneOctober 21, 1990—Wexford joins forces with the bridegroom when his best man is killed at the stag party. And Charlie Hatton's death is only the first in a st
5. S04E05The Best Man to Die: Part TwoOctober 28, 1990—
6. S04E06The Best Man to Die: Part ThreeNovember 4, 1990—
7. S04E07An Unkindness of Ravens: Part OneNovember 11, 1990—Rodney Williams disappears and then his body found in the woods. Wexford investigates and finds more than one mystery.
8. S04E08An Unkindness of Ravens: Part TwoNovember 18, 1990—
9. S04E09Put on by CunningDecember 24, 1990—When a world-famous flautist is murdered Wexford wonders if his recently returned daughter had anything to do with it. He becomes obsessed w

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

1. S05E01A New Lease of Death: Part OneSeptember 29, 1991—A local clergyman is anxious to re-open a thirty-year-old murder case, which resulted in Harry Painter being hanged for the axe-murder of an
2. S05E02A New Lease of Death: Part TwoOctober 6, 1991—
3. S05E03A New Lease of Death: Part ThreeOctober 13, 1991—
4. S05E04Murder Being Once Done: Part OneOctober 20, 1991—Wexford is staying in London with his nephew Howard, a police superintendent, convalescing from over-work and under doctor's orders to drink
5. S05E05Murder Being Once Done: Part TwoOctober 27, 1991—
6. S05E06Murder Being Once Done: Part ThreeNovember 3, 1991—
7. S05E07From Doon with Death: Part OneNovember 10, 1991—Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found m
8. S05E08From Doon with Death: Part TwoNovember 17, 1991—Although Mr. Parsons is under the impression that he and his wife knew nobody in Kingsmarkham it turns out that Margaret had two school acqu
9. S05E09Means of Evil: Part OneNovember 24, 1991—Inspector Wexford is confronted with a murder in a vegetarian family and wonders how many kinds of mushrooms there are.
10. S05E10Means of Evil: Part TwoDecember 1, 1991—

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

1. S06E01The Speaker of Mandarin: Part OneSeptember 27, 1992—Wexford is in China on a study tour of historic sites. To his amazement, he has psychic experiences, including a vision of the body of a Chi
2. S06E02The Speaker of Mandarin: Part TwoOctober 4, 1992—
3. S06E03The Speaker of Mandarin: Part ThreeOctober 11, 1992—
4. S06E04The Mouse in the Corner: Part OneOctober 18, 1992—Tom Peterlee, a member of a large family who live in three adjoining cottages, is murdered. Eva, his mother is quite cavalier in reaction to
5. S06E05The Mouse in the Corner: Part TwoOctober 25, 1992—
6. S06E06An Unwanted Woman: Part OneNovember 1, 1992—Wexford investigates the killing of an elderly woman. Harry and Doreen Betts of Kingsmarkham are suspected of murdering their mother. But di
7. S06E07An Unwanted Woman: Part TwoNovember 8, 1992—
8. S06E08Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part OneNovember 15, 1992—A Kingsmarkham police sergeant dies, carrying a replica gun he had taken from his young son... Then, one year later, Wexford is called to Ta
9. S06E09Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part TwoNovember 22, 1992—
10. S06E10Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part ThreeNovember 29, 1992—
11. S06E11Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part FourDecember 6, 1992—

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

1. S07E01Master of the Moor: Part OneSeptember 2, 1994 7.0Stephen Whalby is a young man living on the edge of the Moor, where since childhood he has spent most of his time alone. A string of young w
2. S07E02Master of the Moor: Part TwoSeptember 9, 1994—Part two of three. Stephen's passion for the moor fuels the detective's suspicions, as his neglected wife is driven into the arms of danger.
3. S07E03Master of the Moor: Part ThreeSeptember 16, 1994—Conclusion. A secret hideaway from Stephen's childhood leads to him uncovering the identity of the Master of the Moor.

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

1. S08E01Vanity Dies Hard: Part OneMarch 24, 1995—Andrew Fielding, a good-looking young teacher, marries Alice Whittaker, a rich woman in her late thirties, more than ten years older than he
2. S08E02Vanity Dies Hard: Part TwoMarch 31, 1995—Part two of a moody whodunit from the pen of Britain's queen of crime fiction, starring Eleanor David as bride-to-be Alice Whittaker, whose
3. S08E03Vanity Dies Hard: Part ThreeApril 7, 1995—Part three. The spinster's suspicions grow when her best friend mysteriously disappears, and as illness takes control she realises her ally
4. S08E04The Strawberry Tree: Part OneApril 21, 1995—Petra Summers is an attractive middle-aged woman with a past - and her past life is beginning to come back to haunt her. When Petra Sundert
5. S08E05The Strawberry Tree: Part TwoApril 28, 1995—Continuing the drama about a wealthy widow who still grieves the loss of her brother.Petra is lonely. Will's constant attention is no consol

Season 8 ranked & reviewed

1. S09E01A Dark Blue PerfumeJanuary 10, 1996—A middle-aged man returns to his home town and meets the woman he was in love with as a teenager thirty years before. Liz and Mark are soon
2. S09E02Simisola: Part OneJanuary 26, 1996—At first, this mystery seems to be a missing person case: Wexford's doctor asks for help in finding his daughter, Melanie Akande, a recent c
3. S09E03Simisola: Part TwoFebruary 2, 1996—Wexford visits the victim of another attempted murder in hospital, and notices a pink Volkswagen Beetle in the car park. Later, another atte
4. S09E04Simisola: Part ThreeFebruary 9, 1996—
5. S09E05The Secret House of Death: Part OneMarch 8, 1996—Susan Townsend is a young woman who goes to see her reclusive next-door neighbour and finds him hacked to death. When another body is found
6. S09E06The Secret House of Death: Part TwoMarch 15, 1996—Part two of two. Susan Townsend finds herself in danger as details of the double killing begin to emerge.
7. S09E07A Case Of Coincidence: Part OneMarch 22, 1996—The action begins in the year 1954, when a woman's body is found in the fen-land of Norfolk, and a murder investigation gets under way. In t
8. S09E08A Case Of Coincidence: Part TwoMarch 29, 1996—Part two of two. Eddie Brannel's protests of innocence urge Masters to go against orders, and as a consequence he learns the true identity o

Season 9 ranked & reviewed

1. S10E01The DoubleJanuary 3, 1997—Lisa meets Zoe, who is as much like her as an identical twin, but entirely out of the common rut - and dramatic events ensue which change bo
2. S10E02Bribery and Corruption: Part OneJanuary 17, 1997—Nicholas Hawthorne is a young engineer, recently made redundant and looking for a job in the boat-building industry. He has a very realistic
3. S10E03Bribery and Corruption: Part TwoJanuary 24, 1997—Part two of two. Nick's attempted suicide implicates him in Emma's death and Annabel casts light on the mystery.
4. S10E04ThornappleJanuary 31, 1997—A boy obsessively collects poisons - and then he tries them out, with deadly results.
5. S10E05May and June: Part OneFebruary 7, 1997 7.0May Thrace and June Symonds are sisters, but their lives are very different. While June lives in the lap of luxury, May is struggling. And M
6. S10E06May and June: Part TwoFebruary 14, 1997 7.0
7. S10E07Front SeatFebruary 21, 1997—Hugh and Cecily Branksome retire to the seaside town where they grew up. There they meet again Arnold Cottle, an old boyfriend of Cecily's.

Season 10 ranked & reviewed

1. S11E01Going Wrong: Part OneJune 2, 1998—As a teenager, Guy Curran leads a street gang and for three years is the lover of Leonora, whose middle-class background is a world away fro
2. S11E02Going Wrong: Part TwoJune 9, 1998—Part two. While attending a party with Celeste, Guy argues with Leonora's brother. He then asks Danny to kill him - but when he learns of an
3. S11E03Going Wrong: Part ThreeJune 16, 1998—Part three of three. After losing the fight with William, Guy decides to forget Leonora and make it up to Celeste, but a surprise invitation
4. S11E04Road Rage: Part OneNovember 8, 1998—A Kingsmarkham bypass is planned which will take congestion and air pollution out of the town but put tarmac and heavy traffic through a str
5. S11E05Road Rage: Part TwoNovember 9, 1998—A girl's badly decomposed body is found, and cabdriver Stanley Trotter is suspected of murder.
6. S11E06You Can't Be Too CarefulDecember 24, 1998—A psychological tale of two women who share an apartment, one outgoing and irresponsible, the other shy and neurotic. One day, the chemistry
7. S11E07The Orchard WallsDecember 31, 1998—n England, in June 1941, sixteen-year-old Jenny is evacuated from war-torn London to her Aunt Ella's house in rural Hampshire. The elderly M
8. S11E08The Lake of DarknessMay 3, 1999—Quiet accountant Martin wins the lottery, but things take a turn for the worse when he meets Francesca, who is not what she seems.
9. S11E09The Fallen CurtainAugust 6, 1999—Richard Brazier has a mental block about his abduction as an eight year old and is haunted by what may or may not have happened.

Season 11 ranked & reviewed

1. S12E01Harm DoneOctober 11, 2000 7.0Wexford copes with two abductions of teen-aged girls, the disappearance of a 3 year old from her bedroom, and the return of a paroled pedoph

Season 12 ranked & reviewed