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Ruth Rendell | | Birth Date: |
February 17, 1930 | | Place of Birth: |
London, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Ruth Rendell
1,184 words, approx. 4 pages
 Ruth Rendell (born 1930) was one of the world's most skillful and popular writers of mysteries and suspense thrillers. Ruth Grasemann was born on February 17, 1930, in London, England, and was educated at Laughton High School in Essex. She worked as a... summary from source:
 Biography of Ruth (Barbara) Rendell
12,656 words, approx. 42 pages
 Ruth Rendell has in recent years established herself as a major force in modern detective fiction, having won such prestigious awards as the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America, the Current Crime Silver Cup for the best crime... summary from source:
Biography of Ruth (Barbara) Rendell
11,506 words, approx. 38 pages
In the world of mystery and detective fiction, Ruth Rendell is considered by most critics as one of the leading, if not the leading, practitioners of the genre. Often hailed as the "Queen of Crime" or "the First Lady of Mystery," she has also been... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Ruth Rendell Information
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Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, (born February 17, 1930), is an English best-selling mystery and psychological crime writer, often called the Queen of Crime. Born in London, the...
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 Daily Mail On form? Ruth Rendell
07/20/2007: 382 words, approx. 1 pages WHAT'S THE PLOT? A TRUFFLE-HUNTING dog unearths a human hand (don't worry, he gets the truffle in the end) and Chief Inspector Wexford has a body to investigate, which has lain buried for over ten years on the land of a grumpy farmer... summary from source:
New York Whodunit? The rebranding of Ruth Rendell
10/17/2005: 427 words, approx. 1 pages What's a best-selling English mystery writer with 62 books under her belt-a baroness! -doing in the midst of an American marketing blitz, the kind reserved for literary ingenues? For the Stateside publication of Ruth Rendell's Thirteen Steps Down, her publishers at Crown decided it... summary from source:
 AP News Agents' revolt shakes talent agency
9/25/2007: 537 words, approx. 2 pagesTheatrical and literary agents are taking leading roles in a corporate drama in London, resigning one after another from a major agency and threatening to take their clients with them.The exodus from PFD Group Ltd., a leading international literary and talent agency, could be a... summary from source:
AP News Today in history - Feb. 17
2/17/2007: 656 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Saturday, Feb. 17, the 48th day of 2007. There are 317 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 17, 1801, the House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson president; Burr became vice president.On...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jane S. Bakerman
1,438 words, approx. 5 pages
Ruth Rendell is hailed by her publishers as "The New First Lady of Mystery." The fact is that, publishers' enthusiasm aside, Rendell is worth serious critical attention because she has not only created a series of ingenious and clever plots, but has, above all, explored human nature effectively and with genuine insight. The appeal of the Rendell novels is diversified and full; she uses such interest-generating devices as social criticism, brief comments upon the detective story, and sho... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Francis Wyndham
753 words, approx. 3 pages
With twenty-two books written over eighteen years, Ruth Rendell has established a double eminence in two separate categories of crime fiction: the classic puzzle, with a stable background and a recurring cast headed by a mildly eccentric detective and his more conventional subordinate; and the novel of pure suspense, in which a blundering innocent and a haunted psychopath become fatally entangled in a paranoid atmosphere of cross purposes and sinister coincidence. In both fields success is difficult, but fo... summary from source:
Critical Essay by T. J. Binyon
147 words, approx. 1 pages
Although most of the eleven stories in Ruth Rendell's new collection [The Fallen Curtain] have a crime as their subject, its detection is not the object in any of them. Instead she sets out to create a mood—ranging from the domestic to the mildly macabre—and then suddenly, in the last few pages, whisks away the veil to reveal a situation which startles the reader as much as the characters. The method could become mechanical, but it is never so here: each story has its own individual and...
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