Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Ruth Rendell is interviewed by a reporter in New York City September 28, 2005. RENDELL REUTERS/Seth Wenig LONDON (Reuters) ...

Best-selling British crime writer Ruth Rendell, who wrote over 60 books in a career spanning five decades, died on Saturday at the age of 85. Rendell — who also wrote under the pseudonym Barbara Vine ...

The British author wrote crime novels for 50 years, many featuring Chief Inspector "Reg" Wexford. Rendell died May 2. Originally broadcast in 1989 and 2005. We're remembering British mystery writer ...

Famed British crime writer Ruth Rendell died this past weekend in London. She was 85 and had suffered a stroke in January. Best known for her long-running Inspector Wexford series — which was adapted ...

When the news of Ruth Rendell's death broke last weekend, I searched for some of her novels on my mystery bookshelves. Rendell, 85, wrote more than 60 novels, so I should've been able to find a few, ...

Antonia Fraser, Compiled by, Ruth Rendell, Author, Erle Stanley Gardner, Author Severn House Publishers $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4918-2 A welcome reissue is The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza, the ...

Ruth Rendell, a prolific British novelist who brought a new sense of psychological tension to her crime fiction, which often explored contemporary social and sexual themes, died May 2 at a hospital in ...

Including those she published as Barbara Vine, "Dark Corners" is Ruth Rendell's 66th novel — and her last. Rendell, who was made a life peer as Baroness Rendell of Babergh in 1997, died in May of this ...

Mystery readers around the world have suffered a loss. On Saturday morning, her publisher announced that British crime writer Ruth Rendell died at age 85. Rendell, the author of the Inspector Wexford ...