5.2/1095 votes#1 - The Double
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1997
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 both their lives.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1082 votes
#2 - Bribery and Corruption: Part One
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/1997
Nicholas Hawthorne is a young engineer, recently made redundant and looking for a job in the boat-building industry. He has a very realistic 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1052 votes
#3 - Bribery and Corruption: Part Two
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/1997
Part two of two. Nick's attempted suicide implicates him in Emma's death and Annabel casts light on the mystery.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1077 votes
#4 - Thornapple
Season 10 Episode 4 - Aired 1/31/1997
A boy obsessively collects poisons - and then he tries them out, with deadly results.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1051 votes
#5 - May and June: Part One
Season 10 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/1997
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.
Director: James Cellan Jones
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1025 votes
#6 - May and June: Part Two
Season 10 Episode 6 - Aired 2/14/1997
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Director: James Cellan Jones
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1077 votes
#7 - Front Seat
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/1997
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. 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: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 10
Every episode of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 10 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 10!
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
Season 10 Ratings Summary
"The Double" is the best rated episode of "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries" season 10. It scored 5.2/10 based on 95 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/3/1997. This episode is rated 1.9 points higher than the second-best, "Bribery and Corruption: Part One".