When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies, and culminate in murder.In Rendell's...

Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired from the crime force. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coach house in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes great pleasure in...

Niveau B1 Intermediate Level 8. - 9. Klasse / 1.600 Wörter Chief Inspector Wexford und das Gericht sind sich sicher: Der Mord an einer alten Dame wurde von deren Angestellten Painter begangen. Doch dann stellt Henry Archery, dessen Sohn...

Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla...

Zum ersten Mal verläuft für Carl alles nach Plan. Sein Romandebüt wird veröffentlicht, er hat ein Haus in Londons Stadtmitte geerbt und er ist glücklich verliebt. Um jetzt noch für den nötigen Geldfluss zu sorgen, sucht er sich einen...

Teddy was born in squalor. Now he is a craftsman determined to banish ugliness from his life. Harriet is a beautiful, bored trophy wife who employs a series of repairmen for her sexual satisfaction. And Francine is a college student who...

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After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage among the...

Nur der Tod stillt die Gier ...Ein Trüffelsucher und sein Hund graben eine abgehackte Hand aus. Die Polizei exhumiert daraufhin das Skelett eines Mannes - und findet kurze Zeit später in einem verlassenen Cottage eine zweite Leiche....

The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And they were about to vanish forever when the new highway cut through them. While Chief Inspector Wexford privately despaired about the loss of his hiking grounds, local...

Niveau A2 bis B1 Pre-intermediate Level 7.-8. Klasse / 1.400 Wörter Bei dem Mord an Angela Hathall gibt es keinerlei Spuren und somit keine Hinweise auf ihren Mörder mit Ausnahme eines einzigen Fingerabdrucks mit einer L-förmigen Narbe....

“A spectacularly creepy and macabre tale” (Entertainment Weekly) of blackmail, murders both accidental and opportunistic, and of one life’s fateful unraveling—from Ruth Rendell, “one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation”...