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The Best Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

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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.
  1. Background image for Means of Evil: Part Two
    8.0/10(27 votes)

    #1 - Means of Evil: Part Two

    S5:E10

    No description available

    Director:Sandy Johnson
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Murder Being Once Done: Part One
    7.8/10(50 votes)

    #2 - Murder Being Once Done: Part One

    S5:E4

    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.

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  3. Background image for Means of Evil: Part One
    7.8/10(65 votes)

    #3 - Means of Evil: Part One

    S5:E9

    Inspector Wexford is confronted with a murder in a vegetarian family and wonders how many kinds of mushrooms there are.

    Director:Sandy Johnson
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for A New Lease of Death: Part Three
    7.6/10(30 votes)

    #4 - A New Lease of Death: Part Three

    S5:E3

    No description available

    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for May and June: Part One
    7.6/10(57 votes)

    #5 - May and June: Part One

    S10:E5

    May Thrace and June Symonds are sisters, but their lives are very different. While June lives in the lap of luxury, May is struggling. And May becomes convinced that she has been done a great injustice.

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  6. Background image for A New Lease of Death: Part One
    7.4/10(52 votes)

    #6 - A New Lease of Death: Part One

    S5:E1

    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 elderly woman. Wexford himself, as a young detective sergeant, helped to convict Painter, and he has to face the possibility that the wrong man was hanged.

    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for A New Lease of Death: Part Two
    7.3/10(30 votes)

    #7 - A New Lease of Death: Part Two

    S5:E2

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    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Murder Being Once Done: Part Three
    7.3/10(23 votes)

    #8 - Murder Being Once Done: Part Three

    S5:E6

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  10. Background image for From Doon with Death: Part Two
    7.3/10(28 votes)

    #9 - From Doon with Death: Part Two

    S5:E8

    Although Mr. Parsons is under the impression that he and his wife knew nobody in Kingsmarkham it turns out that Margaret had two school acquaintances in the town, Helen Missal and Fabia Quadrant, who are now both married to very wealthy men. Wexford assumes that one of these men is Doon, and was having an affair with the victim, but appearances can be deceptive

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for May and June: Part Two
    7.3/10(28 votes)

    #10 - May and June: Part Two

    S10:E6

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  12. Background image for Murder Being Once Done: Part Two
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    #11 - Murder Being Once Done: Part Two

    S5:E5

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  13. Background image for Bribery and Corruption: Part One
    7.2/10(87 votes)

    #12 - Bribery and Corruption: Part One

    S10:E2

    Nicholas Hawthorne is a young engineer, recently made redundant and looking for a job in the boat-building industry. He has a very realistic nightmare about a woman being murdered. Then, on an unsuccessful dinner date, Nicholas spots Julian Sorensen, the boss of the firm which has laid him off, and the woman with him isn't his wife. Sorensen pays Nicholas's dinner bill. The next day, trying to pay back the money, Nicholas sees a photograph of Sorensen's wife - and she is the woman who was killed in his dream... Nicholas decides to investigate.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Bribery and Corruption: Part Two
    7.2/10(58 votes)

    #13 - Bribery and Corruption: Part Two

    S10:E3

    Part two of two. Nick's attempted suicide implicates him in Emma's death and Annabel casts light on the mystery.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Thornapple
    7.2/10(81 votes)

    #14 - Thornapple

    S10:E4

    A boy obsessively collects poisons - and then he tries them out, with deadly results.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for From Doon with Death: Part One
    7.1/10(57 votes)

    #15 - From Doon with Death: Part One

    S5:E7

    Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in a field. Mrs. Parsons led an extremely uneventful life, being a lay preacher, but Inspector Wexford is intrigued when he is looking through her belongings and fine a number of expensive antique books all inscribed 'From Doon to Minna'.Who is Doon?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Master of the Moor: Part One
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Master of the Moor: Part One

    S7:E1

    Stephen 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 women, all with fair hair, are killed on the Moor, and suddenly Stephen finds himself the principal police suspect.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Harm Done
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Harm Done

    S12:E1

    Wexford copes with two abductions of teen-aged girls, the disappearance of a 3 year old from her bedroom, and the return of a paroled pedophile to the town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Front Seat
    6.4/10(81 votes)

    #18 - Front Seat

    S10:E7

    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. She goes to look for a public seat given to the town by her late father, who was a local alderman, and finds it was destroyed and later replaced by another seat given by a suspected murderer. With Arnold's help, she sets out to investigate the unsolved murder.

    Director:Sandy Johnson
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for The Double
    5.2/10(102 votes)

    #19 - The Double

    S10:E1

    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 both their lives.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Wolf to the Slaughter: Part One
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    #20 - Wolf to the Slaughter: Part One

    S1:E1

    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 body to be found. Meanwhile, a beautiful, promiscuous woman goes missing - as does the bundle of cash she was carrying. But Wexford and Burden have different theories about the disappearance of the eccentric Anita Margolis.

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  22. Background image for Wolf to the Slaughter: Part Two
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    #21 - Wolf to the Slaughter: Part Two

    S1:E2

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  23. Background image for Wolf to the Slaughter: Part Three
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    #22 - Wolf to the Slaughter: Part Three

    S1:E3

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  24. Background image for Wolf to the Slaughter: Part  Four
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    #23 - Wolf to the Slaughter: Part Four

    S1:E4

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  25. Background image for A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part One
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    #24 - A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part One

    S2:E1

    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:Unknown
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  26. Background image for A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part Two
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    #25 - A Guilty Thing Surprised: Part Two

    S2:E2

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    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Means of Evil: Part Two" is the best rated episode of "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries". It scored 8/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by Sandy Johnson and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/1/1991. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Murder Being Once Done: Part One".