The Best Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 6

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.2/10(48 votes)

   #1 - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One

   S6:E19/27/1992

   Wexford is in China on a study tour of historic sites. To his amazement, he has psychic experiences, including a vision of the body of a Chinese nobleman dead for two thousand years. Wexford's tour party is made up of strangers, but he feels tense and claustrophobic among them. Then a young Chinese student drowns during the trip. On his return to England, Wexford is called to a murder scene, and the dead woman, who has been shot, was one of those with him on his Chinese trip. There is no obvious motive, and he decides to investigate all his fellow tourists, finding hidden greed, treachery, theft, and adultery.

   Director:Herbert Wise

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.7/10(21 votes)

   #2 - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Two

   S6:E210/4/1992

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   Director:Herbert Wise

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Herbert Wise

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   7.7/10(20 votes)

   #3 - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Three

   S6:E310/11/1992

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   Director:Herbert Wise

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.2/10(45 votes)

   #4 - The Mouse in the Corner: Part One

   S6:E410/18/1992

   Tom Peterlee, a member of a large family who live in three adjoining cottages, is murdered. Eva, his mother is quite cavalier in reaction to his death in Wexford's opinion and other family members are no more helpful. Heather, his widow, seems dumb with grief and his brother and meek sister-in-law are similarly evasive. Family friend Carol is more forthcoming, providing Heather with an alibi, but Wexford is sure one of the Peterlees is a killer. Burden has problems of his own when his daughter starts dating a married man and a series of ramraids in Kingsmarkham add to Wexford's problems.

   Director:Rob Walker

   Writer:Unknown

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5. 

   6.9/10(20 votes)

   #5 - The Mouse in the Corner: Part Two

   S6:E510/25/1992

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   Director:Rob Walker

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.9/10(33 votes)

   #6 - An Unwanted Woman: Part One

   S6:E611/1/1992

   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:Unknown

   Writer:Rosemary Anne Sisson

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7. 

   8.0/10(33 votes)

   #7 - An Unwanted Woman: Part Two

   S6:E711/8/1992

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   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Rosemary Anne Sisson

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8. 

   7.6/10(75 votes)

   #8 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One

   S6:E811/15/1992

   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:Unknown

   Writer:Matthew Jacobs

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   Writer:Matthew Jacobs
9. 

   7.4/10(24 votes)

   #9 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Two

   S6:E911/22/1992

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   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Matthew Jacobs

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   Writer:Matthew Jacobs
10. 

    7.8/10(18 votes)

    #10 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Three

    S6:E1011/29/1992

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    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Matthew Jacobs

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    Writer:Matthew Jacobs
11. 

    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #11 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Four

    S6:E1112/6/1992

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    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Matthew Jacobs

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    Writer:Matthew Jacobs