Showing posts with label Ruth Rendell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ruth Rendell. Show all posts

03 May, 2015

Ruth Rendell, RIP


Seems far too soon after we so recently lost PD.  A decent treatment from the BBC amidst all the tinkly-themed pan-and-scans of blurry pictures and computer voice-overs that seem to proliferate on YouTube in the wake of such events.

I was always more partial to the Barbara Vine's and the non-Wexford stuff myself, and really was there ever since Agatha Christie such an genre-challenging moment in crime-fiction as this, from the first page (first sentence really) of A Judgement in Stone ?  Whodunits seem so clichéd in its wake.