8.1/1023 votesLoading...#1 - Means of Evil: Part Two
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1991
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Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1067 votesLoading...
#2 - Shake Hands Forever: Part One
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1988
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 follows alienates not just his colleagues, including Mike Burden, but his wife, too.
Director: N/A
Writer: Clive Exton
- 8.0/1029 votesLoading...
#3 - An Unwanted Woman: Part Two
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1992
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Director: N/A
Writer: Rosemary Anne Sisson
- 7.8/1068 votesLoading...
#4 - A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part One
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 6/19/1988
Wexford finds he is dealing with a very nasty case when nature-loving Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered on one of her nightly walks through the woods around Myfleet Manor.
Director: N/A
Writer: Clive Exton
- 7.8/1035 votesLoading...
#5 - Shake Hands Forever: Part Three
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/1988
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Director: N/A
Writer: Clive Exton
- 7.8/1029 votesLoading...
#6 - An Unwanted Woman: Part One
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1992
Wexford 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?
Director: N/A
Writer: Rosemary Anne Sisson
- 7.7/1034 votesLoading...
#7 - Shake Hands Forever: Part Two
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/1988
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Director: N/A
Writer: Clive Exton
- 7.7/1027 votesLoading...
#8 - No More Dying Then: Part Three
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/5/1989
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1027 votesLoading...
#10 - A New Lease of Death: Part Three
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1991
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Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1048 votesLoading...
#11 - Murder Being Once Done: Part One
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1991
Wexford is staying in London with his nephew Howard, a police superintendent, convalescing from over-work and under doctor's orders to drink only water. He is supposed to be resting, but he is bored, and his nephew is dealing with a fascinating murder case. The body of a young woman, Loveday Morgan, was found in Kenbourne Vale Cemetery, strangled with a silk scarf, and the only things in her handbag were a photograph and two telephone numbers. It appears that she had no money and was living under a false name. Wexford, keen to get out and about, is drawn to the case. His unofficial investigation uncovers a story of adoption and parental love.
Director: John Gorrie
Writer: Matthew Jacobs
- 7.7/1063 votesLoading...
#12 - Means of Evil: Part One
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1991
Inspector Wexford is confronted with a murder in a vegetarian family and wonders how many kinds of mushrooms there are.
Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1017 votesLoading...
#13 - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Two
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1992
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Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1015 votesLoading...
#14 - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Three
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1992
No description available
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1013 votesLoading...
#15 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Three
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 11/29/1992
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Director: N/A
Writer: Matthew Jacobs
- 7.7/1056 votesLoading...
#16 - The Secret House of Death: Part One
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 3/8/1996
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 on the neighbour's property, Susan gets mixed up in a tale of mayhem and murder, with the killer adding her to his list of future victims.
Director: Jim Goddard
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1039 votesLoading...
#17 - A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part Three
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/3/1988
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Director: N/A
Writer: Clive Exton
- 7.6/1030 votesLoading...
#18 - No More Dying Then: Part Two
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/29/1989
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1025 votesLoading...
#20 - The Best Man to Die: Part Three
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1990
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Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1036 votesLoading...
#21 - An Unkindness of Ravens: Part One
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1990
Rodney Williams disappears and then his body found in the woods. Wexford investigates and finds more than one mystery.
Director: John Gorrie
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1070 votesLoading...
#22 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1992
A Kingsmarkham police sergeant dies, carrying a replica gun he had taken from his young son... Then, one year later, Wexford is called to 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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Matthew Jacobs
- 7.6/1011 votesLoading...
#23 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Four
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1992
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Director: N/A
Writer: Matthew Jacobs
- 7.6/1058 votesLoading...
#24 - Simisola: Part Three
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/1996
No description available
Director: Jim Goddard
Writer: Alan Plater
- 7.5/1039 votesLoading...
#25 - A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part Two
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 6/26/1988
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: Clive Exton
The Best Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Every episode of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries!
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
Genres:DramaMystery
Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"Means of Evil: Part Two" is the best rated episode of "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries". It scored 8.1/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by Sandy Johnson and written by N/A, it aired on 12/1/1991. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Shake Hands Forever: Part One".