Vrchní inspektor Wexford Séria

Táto séria sleduje prácu skúseného inšpektora z Anglicka, ktorý rieši zložité prípady v pokojnom, no zákernom prostredí. Spolu so svojím tímom odhaľuje temné tajomstvá a zložité motívy skrývajúce sa pod povrchom zdanlivo obyčajného života. So zameraním na psychológiu postáv a detailné vyšetrovanie ponúka pútavé čítanie pre milovníkov klasických detektívok.

No more dying then : [a chief inspector Wexford mystery]

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No more dying then : [a chief inspector Wexford mystery]
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Detective Mike Burden's wife has just died, and his sister-in-law is staying at his house to help take care of his two children. He is so utterly miserable, and grief stricken, that he can't see how much they all need him to focus himself on his home life. Partially because of his inability to deal with his personal life, when a 5-year-old boy disappears, he throws himself whole-heartedly into the investigation. He becomes over involved with the boy's mother. The recent disappearance of a 12-year-old girl makes the case more worrisome.
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Keď raz príde smrť
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Mary Jagová daruje kostnú dreň, aby zachránila život človeku, ktorého nepozná. Hoci jej nezištný skutok vedie k trpkému rozchodu s priateľom Alistairom, otvárajú sa jej nové možnosti. Muž, ktorého vytrhla z pazúrov smrti, a fascinujúce prostredie centrálneho Londýna, kam sa mladá žena presťahuje, obrátia naruby celý jej život. Okolie Regent´s Parku nie je len výstavná oblasť, známa prepychovými stavbami a nádhernou architektúrou z čias Juraja IV. Je to aj miesto, ktoré priťahuje tulákov, bezdomovcov a narkomanov - skrátka zličin, čo zakrátko potvrdí nález troch mŕtvych obetí napichnutých na hrotoch plota. Zelené srdce veľkomesta - malebné parky, z ktorých dýcha bohatá história, sa stávajú dejiskom ďalšieho citového vzťahu, ktorý sa Mary podarí nadviazať, a kľúčom k vyriešeniu troch prípadov vraždy motivovaných nielen láskou k peniazom, ale i obyčajnou ľudskou tragédiou.
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The Babes in the Wood
Ruth Rendellová
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This was an investigation which would call into question many of Wexford's assumptions about the way people behave, including his own family. . . In The Babes in the Wood Ruth Rendell brings her keen psychological insight and rigorous moral sense to bear on Wexford’s assumptions about the way people behave, including his own family, as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of two teenagers and their babysitter. There hadn't been anything in living memory like the kind of rain that had caused the River Brede to burst its banks and flood the homes in the area. The Subaqua Task Force could find no trace of the missing teenagers and their babysitter…but their mother was still convinced that her children were dead.
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End in Tears
Ruth Rendellová
384 stránok
14 hodin čítania
A father's worst nightmare. It's first light and George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will -- that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery.
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Not in the flesh
Ruth Rendellová
384 stránok
14 hodin čítania
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, and the post-mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. Wexford knows
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The monster in the box
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He had never told anyone. The strange relationship, if it could be called that, had gone on for years, decades, and he had never breathed a word about it. He had kept silent because he knew no one would believe him. None of it could be proved, not the st
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The twenty-fourth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired from the crime force. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits of a more relaxed lifestyle, he misses being the hand of the law. But a chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, changes everything. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a mysterious murder case. The bodies of two women and a man have been discovered in the old coal hole of an attractive house in St John's Wood. None of the corpses carry identification. But the man's jacket pockets contain a string of pearls, a diamond and a sapphire necklace as well as other jewellery valued in the region of £40,000. To Wexford, this is definitely a case worth coming out of retirement for. He is intrigued and excited by the challenge, but unaware that this new investigative role will bring him into extreme physical danger...
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No Man's Nightingale
Ruth Rendellová
352 stránok
13 hodin čítania
No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parentage - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter's Church. But it comes as a profound shock to everyone when she is found strangled in the Vicarage. A garrulous cleaner, Maxine, also shared by the Wexfords, discovers the body. In his comparatively recent retirement, the former Detective Chief Inspector is devoting much time to reading, and is deep into Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He has little patience with Maxine's prattle. But when his old friend Mike Burden asks if he might like to assist on this case as Crime Solutions Adviser (unpaid), Wexford is obliged to pay more precise attention to all available information. The old instincts have not been blunted by a life where he and Dora divide their time between London and Kingsmarkham. Wexford retains a relish for solving puzzles and a curiosity about people which is invaluable in detective work. For all his experience and sophistication, Burden tends to jump to conclusions. But he is wise enough to listen to the man whose office he inherited, and whose experience makes him a most formidable ally.
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Súvisiace knihy

Prostředky zla a jiné povídky
Ruth Rendellová
V pěti povídkách musí Wexford se svým týmem vyřešit zcela odlišné záhady a poradit si se zdánlivě nesourodými stopami. Jak souvisí otrava houbami s nepochopitelnou sebevraždou mladé ženy? Proč bohatá důchodkyně zemřela, zrovna když měl její lékař dovolenou? Z jakého důvodu někdo unesl z kočárku nemluvně ve chvíli, kdy v jiné části města probíhala loupež drahocenných klenotů? Proč se inspektor při dovolené v Chorvatsku díval ženám po nohách a co má společného obyčejný kalendář s tragickým případem otravy jedem? 1. vydání.
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Means Of Evil And Other Stories
Ruth Rendellová
240 stránok
9 hodin čítania
What connects a kidnapped baby, a woman's body left to rot in a cove in Yugoslavia, a suspicious suicide and the century-old case of a wife who poisons her husband? Then Wexford discovers Paddy Jasper has returned to Kingsmarkham, a man previously investigated by Wexford for violently abusing a child.
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Means of Evil
Ruth Rendellová
176 stránok
7 hodin čítania
A collection of five short mystery stories featuring Chief Inspector Wexford.
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