- Inspector Wexford
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Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford is a recurring character in a series of detective novels by English crime writer Ruth Rendell. He made his first appearance in the author's 1964 debut From Doon With Death, and has since been the protagonist of 20 more stories; his latest outing was the 2009 publication The Monster in the Box. In the television series of the same name he was played by the late George Baker.
Rendell portrays him as an intelligent, sensitive man; he has a placid wife, Dora, and two daughters, Sheila and Sylvia, the latter with whom he has a difficult relationship.
Novels
- From Doon With Death (1964)
- A New Lease of Death (1967) Sins of the Fathers (U.S. title)
- Wolf to the Slaughter (1968)
- The Best Man to Die (1969)
- A Guilty Thing Surprised (1970)
- No More Dying Then (1971)
- Murder Being Done Once (1972) Murder Being Once Done (U.S. title)
- Some Lie And Some Die (1973)
- Shake Hands Forever (1975)
- A Sleeping Life (1978)
- Put on By Cunning (1981) Death Notes (U.S. title)
- The Speaker of Mandarin (1983)
- An Unkindness of Ravens (1985)
- The Veiled One (1988)
- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (1992)
- Simisola (1994)
- Road Rage (1997)
- Harm Done (1999)
- The Babes in the Wood (2002)
- End in Tears (2005)
- Not in the Flesh (2007)
- The Monster in the Box (2009)
- The Vault (2011)
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