The Best Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 10

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.7/10(63 votes)

   #1 - May and June: Part One

   S10:E52/7/1997

   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:Ken Blakeson

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   Director:James Cellan Jones

   Writer:Ken Blakeson
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   7.4/10(34 votes)

   #2 - May and June: Part Two

   S10:E62/14/1997

   After accepting her sister's offer of reconciliation, May emerges from her mousy shell and seduces her sister's lover.

   Director:James Cellan Jones

   Writer:Ken Blakeson

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   Director:James Cellan Jones

   Writer:Ken Blakeson
3. 

   7.3/10(85 votes)

   #3 - Thornapple

   S10:E41/31/1997

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

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown
4. 

   7.2/10(90 votes)

   #4 - Bribery and Corruption: Part One

   S10:E21/17/1997

   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:Mike Vardy

   Writer:Guy Meredith

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   Director:Mike Vardy

   Writer:Guy Meredith
5. 

   7.2/10(58 votes)

   #5 - Bribery and Corruption: Part Two

   S10:E31/24/1997

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

   Director:Mike Vardy

   Writer:Guy Meredith

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   Director:Mike Vardy

   Writer:Guy Meredith
6. 

   6.4/10(85 votes)

   #6 - Front Seat

   S10:E72/21/1997

   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:Roy MacGregor

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   Director:Sandy Johnson

   Writer:Roy MacGregor
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   5.3/10(107 votes)

   #7 - The Double

   S10:E11/3/1997

   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:Mary McMurray

   Writer:Piers Haggard

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   Director:Mary McMurray

   Writer:Piers Haggard