AuthorRuth Rendell
NarratorSian Thomas
Duration10h
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, 'Don't look!' The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still lived in the same house in Clapham. But it had been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had been demolished. Ismay worked in public relations and Heather in catering. They got on well. They always had. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day...
Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator David Suchet
Duration 9h 37m
Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin's ideas about w...
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Carole Hayman
Duration 6h 26m
Four members of the Coverdale family - George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles - died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February, St Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper, shot them down on a Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television. Two weeks later she was arrested for the crime. But the tragedy neither began...
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 39m
Loopy follows an unnamed man who is struggling to grow up and move beyond the confines of his mother's home. Indifferent to his fianc‚e and bored with his 9 to 5 job, his only outlet is with his local drama group. Following a performance as the wolf in Red Riding Hood, he gradually becomes obsessed with his wolf alter-ego, spending more and m...
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 56m
Love and death are the principal players in these two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations of chilling Ruth Rendell stories. In 'The Bridesmaid', when Philip embarks on an affair with Senta, his sister's bridesmaid, she reminds him of the stone statue he adored as a child. Yet Senta is married, and Philip's overwhelming aversion to violence leads ind...
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Ric Jerrom
Duration 9h 58m
Before the advent of the Second World War, beneath the green meadows of Loughton, Essex, a dark network of tunnels has been dug. A group of children discover them. They play there. It becomes their secret place. Seventy years on, the world has changed. Developers have altered the rural landscape. Friends from a half-remembered world have married, d...
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Michael Bryant
Duration 7h 6m
The bleak expanse of Vangmoor was a dark, forbidding place. One victim had been found there, blonde, her face disfigured, her head shorn close to the scalp - killed without motive or mercy. Then a second woman went missing on the moor, and a sense of utter dread gripped the fifty local men who searched for her. Someone watched them in that treacher...
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Nickolas Grace
Duration 11h
When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. There are a few other genuine friends on the list, but he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, as that might involve asking her husband. T...
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Ric Jerrom
Duration 7h 18m
Alan Groombridge had a fantasy. Husband to a woman he didn't like, father of two children he had never wanted, and manager of the second smallest branch of the Anglian-Victoria bank in the country, Alan was doomed to a life of domestic boredom and tedious routine. All that saved him was that one fantasy: stealing enough of the bank's money to allow...
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Alec Gunn
Duration 7h 30m
Five short stories in which Inspector Wexford's detective talents are put to good use in solving cases ranging from crimes of passion and violence in Kingsmarkham to a bizarre murder in Yugoslavia.
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Author Ruth Rendell
Narrator Nigel Anthony
Duration 12h 38m
The latest victim in a series of apparently motiveless murders is found in Marylebone. The only clue to the killer's identity is that he usually strangles his victim and removes something personal - like a watch or cigarette lighter. The activities of the sinister 'Rottweiler' will have a profound influence on the lives of a small group of people,...
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