7.2/1044 votes#1 - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1992
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: N/A
- 7.7/1017 votes
#2 - 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 votes
#3 - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Three
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1992
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Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1040 votes
#4 - The Mouse in the Corner: Part One
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1992
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: N/A
- 6.7/1014 votes
#5 - The Mouse in the Corner: Part Two
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1992
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Director: Rob Walker
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1029 votes
#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
- 8.0/1029 votes
#7 - An Unwanted Woman: Part Two
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1992
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Director: N/A
Writer: Rosemary Anne Sisson
- 7.6/1070 votes
#8 - 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
- 7.2/1020 votes
#9 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Two
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1992
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Director: N/A
Writer: Matthew Jacobs
- 7.7/1013 votes
#10 - 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
- 7.6/1011 votes
#11 - 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
The Best Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 6
Every episode of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 6!
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 6 Ratings Summary
"The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One" is the best rated episode of "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries" season 6. It scored 7.2/10 based on 44 votes. Directed by Herbert Wise and written by N/A, it aired on 9/27/1992. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Speaker of Mandarin: Part Two".