The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Season 6

TV-14
From cold, rock-strewn moors to comfortable suburban estates, award-winning writer Ruth Rendell explores the dark fissures between friends and family members that motivate murder.

11 Episodes

  • The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One
    E1
    The Speaker of Mandarin: Part OneWexford 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 Chinese nobleman dead for two thousand years. Wexford's tour party is made up of strangers, but he feels tense and claustrophobic among them. Then a young Chinese student drowns during the trip. On his return to England, Wexford is called to a murder scene, and the dead woman, who has been shot, was one of those with him on his Chinese trip. There is no obvious motive, and he decides to investigate all his fellow tourists, finding hidden greed, treachery, theft, and adultery.
  • The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Two
    E2
    The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Two
  • The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Three
    E3
    The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Three
  • The Mouse in the Corner: Part One
    E4
    The Mouse in the Corner: Part OneTom Peterlee, a member of a large family who live in three adjoining cottages, is murdered. Eva, his mother is quite cavalier in reaction to his death in Wexford's opinion and other family members are no more helpful. Heather, his widow, seems dumb with grief and his brother and meek sister-in-law are similarly evasive. Family friend Carol is more forthcoming, providing Heather with an alibi, but Wexford is sure one of the Peterlees is a killer. Burden has problems of his own when his daughter starts dating a married man and a series of ramraids in Kingsmarkham add to Wexford's problems.
  • The Mouse in the Corner: Part Two
    E5
    The Mouse in the Corner: Part Two
  • An Unwanted Woman: Part One
    E6
    An Unwanted Woman: Part OneWexford investigates the killing of an elderly woman. Harry and Doreen Betts of Kingsmarkham are suspected of murdering their mother. But did they do it, or have they been framed?
  • An Unwanted Woman: Part Two
    E7
    An Unwanted Woman: Part TwoWhen a 92-year old lady dies, Reg becomes suspicious that there was more to it than old age, and begins an investigation into the slightly sinister elderly retired community surrounding her.
  • Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One
    E8
    Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part OneA Kingsmarkham police sergeant dies, carrying a replica gun he had taken from his young son... Then, one year later, Wexford is called to Tancred House, where Davina Flory and her family lie shot dead in a pool of blood. The only survivor is seventeen-year-old Daisy Flory. There are no other witnesses, and the two possible suspects have vanished into thin air. Then a blackmailer is found dangling from a tree... Wexford slowly uncovers a web of motives, greed, illicit sex, and revenge.
  • Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Two
    E9
    Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Two
  • Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Three
    E10
    Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Three
  • Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Four
    E11
    Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Four

Cast of Season 6

  • George BakerDet. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford
  • Christopher RavenscroftDet. Insp. Burden
  • Louie RamsayDora Wexford
  • Ken KitsonDet. Sgt. Martin
  • Diane KeenJenny Burden
  • John BurgessDr. Len Crocker
  • Ruth RendellWriter

 

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