The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Season 5

10 episodes · Sep 29, 1991

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  • S5E1

    A New Lease of Death: Part One

    Sep 29, 199160m

    A local clergyman is anxious to re-open a thirty-year-old murder case, which resulted in Harry Painter being hanged for the axe-murder of an elderly woman. Wexford himself, as a young detective sergeant, helped to convict Painter, and he has to face the possibility that the wrong man was hanged.

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  • S5E2

    A New Lease of Death: Part Two

    Oct 6, 199160m
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  • S5E3

    A New Lease of Death: Part Three

    Oct 13, 199160m
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  • S5E4

    Murder Being Once Done: Part One

    Oct 20, 199160m

    Wexford is staying in London with his nephew Howard, a police superintendent, convalescing from over-work and under doctor's orders to drink only water. He is supposed to be resting, but he is bored, and his nephew is dealing with a fascinating murder case. The body of a young woman, Loveday Morgan, was found in Kenbourne Vale Cemetery, strangled with a silk scarf, and the only things in her handbag were a photograph and two telephone numbers. It appears that she had no money and was living under a false name. Wexford, keen to get out and about, is drawn to the case. His unofficial investigation uncovers a story of adoption and parental love.

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  • S5E5

    Murder Being Once Done: Part Two

    Oct 27, 199160m
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  • S5E6

    Murder Being Once Done: Part Three

    Nov 3, 199160m
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  • S5E7

    From Doon with Death: Part One

    Nov 10, 199160m

    Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in a field. Mrs. Parsons led an extremely uneventful life, being a lay preacher, but Inspector Wexford is intrigued when he is looking through her belongings and fine a number of expensive antique books all inscribed 'From Doon to Minna'.Who is Doon?

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  • S5E8

    From Doon with Death: Part Two

    Nov 17, 199160m

    Although Mr. Parsons is under the impression that he and his wife knew nobody in Kingsmarkham it turns out that Margaret had two school acquaintances in the town, Helen Missal and Fabia Quadrant, who are now both married to very wealthy men. Wexford assumes that one of these men is Doon, and was having an affair with the victim, but appearances can be deceptive

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  • S5E9

    Means of Evil: Part One

    Nov 24, 199160m

    Inspector Wexford is confronted with a murder in a vegetarian family and wonders how many kinds of mushrooms there are.

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  • S5E10

    Means of Evil: Part Two

    Dec 1, 199160m
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