Ruth Rendell
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Description
Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted...
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 19
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Description
Lovable, unflappable Chief Inspector Wexford must investigate when two teenagers and their babysitter disappear during a weekend of torrential rain.
Author
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Description
When four bodies are discovered in the same underground sewer 12 years after the events of A Sight for Sore Eyes, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail to the original murders only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy.
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
While investigating a series of unrelated murders, Inspector Wexford discovers that the victim of a piece of falling concrete, pushed off a highway overpass, is somehow linked to the bludgeoning death of a teenager killed after a late night out with her friends.
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Wexford mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
353 p.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Elderly Gwendolyn Chawcer and her colorful group of friends become increasingly suspicious of her tenant, Michael "Mix" Cellini, an eccentric who idolizes serial killer Reggie Christie, as his odd behavior and obsessions take an ever darker turn.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
257 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When Stuart Font decides to throw a house warming party in his new flat he invites everyone in his building. The party will be one everyone remembers; but not for the right reasons. Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell on the occupants of Lichfield House.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Mystery novel about friendship, love, and aging. Synopsis: In the wanting months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood. Throughout the summer of 1944--until one father forbids it--the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When the body of the first victim is discovered, the bite mark on her neck prompts the media to name the killer "The Rottweiler". But as the death toll rises, it becomes clear that the bite mark was incidental. For, what distinguishes this killer is not bite marks but rather his taking a small trinket from each of his victims as a macabre souvenir. Focusing their investigation near Lisson Grove, the ethnically diverse London neighborhood where all...
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 353 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspector Wexford delves into two harrowing murder cases. Simisola: a haunting case of multiple murder and racism. Road rage: a deadly tale of eco-terrorism, out-of-control anger, and kidnapping.
17) The bridesmaid
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's love at first sight when bridesmaid Senta falls into the life of a handsome young Phillipe at the wedding of his younger sister. As passion for one another intensifies, Phillipe slowly discovers that Senta is shrouded in mystery. When one day she asks Phillipe to perform a terrible deed as proof of his love for her, Phillipe must come to terms with who his lover might really be.
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 cm.
Description
Francois Ozon's humorous psychological drama The New Girlfriend stars Anais Demoustier as Claire, a young woman whose closest friend since childhood, Lea, passes away, leaving behind a husband named David (Romain Duris) and a newborn baby. One day Claire drops by David's house unexpectedly, and finds him feeding his baby with a bottle while dressed in his dead wife's clothes. He explains that Lea was aware of his predilection, and his relief that...
19) La ceremonie
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.
20) La ceremonie
Series
Criterion collection volume 1199
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
The crowning achievement of Claude Chabrol's career is a riveting study of class dynamics and the psychology of crime, starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire as a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually goes haywire.