Wexford, Inspector (Fictitious character)

The babes in the wood : a Chief Inspector Wexford mystery by Ruth Rendell( Book )
30 editions published between 2002 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 2,205 libraries worldwide
The mysterious disappearance of two local teenagers and their baby-sitter draws Inspector Wexford into a baffling case involving dark family secrets, violence, a religious cult, adultery, and murder.

Road rage by Ruth Rendell( Book )
30 editions published between 1992 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 2,187 libraries worldwide
In Britain, Chief Inspector Wexford hunts for eco- terrorists who abducted five people, including his wife. They threaten to kill them unless the government halts the construction of a highway through scenic countryside.

Harm done : an Inspector Wexford mystery by Ruth Rendell( Book )
28 editions published between 1999 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 2,119 libraries worldwide
In Britain, a pedophile's house is burned by an angry mob when a girl disappears, the man having been recently released from jail. But Inspector Wexford is not swayed by the obvious and traces the disappearance to the girl's home and her abusive father.

Simisola by Ruth Rendell( Book )
24 editions published between 1994 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 1,946 libraries worldwide
In an English town, Inspector Wexford investigates attacks on black women which lead to murder. A study of the slave-like condition of foreign domestics in Britain, who are not given the status of immigrants so they can be deported if they agitate for more money.

Not in the flesh by Ruth Rendell( Book )
22 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 1,897 libraries worldwide
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury-a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud. The post mortem cannot reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Although the police database covers a relatively short period of time, it stores a long list of Missing Persons. So Wexford knows he is going to have a job on his hands to identify the corpse. And then, only about twenty yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is discovered. The detection skills of Wexford, Burden, and the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force, are tested to the utmost to see if the murders are connected and to track down whoever is responsible.

The monster in the box : an Inspector Wexford novel by Ruth Rendell( Book )
25 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 1,895 libraries worldwide
Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo -- van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover -- was behind them. Now, half a lifetime later, Inspector Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.

Kissing the gunner's daughter by Ruth Rendell( Book )
16 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,847 libraries worldwide
Friday the thirteenth of May was most unlucky day for Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID. That day he confiscated a replica gun from his son's school briefcase and lost his life in a bank robbery -- the first link in a chain of events which led to a series of deaths. When three people are discovered shot at Tancred House, Chief Inspector Wexford suspects a connection between the two apparently unrelated crimes. But only the seventeen-year-old daughter of one of the victims survives to provide the most confusing of clues. Although Wexford is very taken with the crime's only witness, Daisy Hoy, his feelings do not prevent his deductive powers from functioning with customary intuitive precision.

The veiled one by Ruth Rendell( Book )
15 editions published between 1988 and 2010 in English and Russian and held by 1,830 libraries worldwide
Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her body in the parking garage of a suburban shopping mall? Chief Inspector Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb's explosion lands him in the hospital. It's now up to Mike Burden to step in and solve the case. He's got a suspect ... but will he be able to make him talk?

End in tears : a Wexford novel by Ruth Rendell( Book )
20 editions published between 2005 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,760 libraries worldwide
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while ... One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods. But Wexford, with his old friend and partner, Mike Burden, along with two new recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, pursue their inquiries with a diligence and humanity that make Ruth Rendell's detective stories enthralling, exciting and very touching.

A sleeping life by Ruth Rendell( Book )
21 editions published between 1978 and 2010 in English and Portuguese and held by 1,708 libraries worldwide
The body of a middle-aged murder victim is found, and when Inspector Wexford is called in, he has the uneasy feeling he knows her.