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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Rendell, Ruth
| What is the name of inspector Wexfords youngest daughter? | Ruth Rendell
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| And what is the name of Inspector Wexfords eldest daughter? | Ruth Rendell
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| What is the occupation of Wexfords youngest daughter? | Ruth Rendell
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| What is the term Wexford uses to describe the people in his village? | Ruth Rendell
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customers. Wexford refers to the residents of Kingsmarkham as his customers.
2. Burdens first wife died and he has since remarried.
| How many grandchildren does Inspector Wexford have? (As of the book "Road Rage") | Ruth Rendell
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Three. In Road Rage, Sheila had a daughter. Combined with Sylvias two children, Wexford is now the grandfather of three.
| Finally, what is Chief Inspector Wexfords first name? | Ruth Rendell
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Three times. At the beginning of the book, he was widowed when Edith died of cancer. He married two more times during the course of the story.
Make him taller. By the end of the book, he was delighted to find he had grown to five foot eight -- the last inch when he was twenty.
He wanted to leave her and marry another man. He wanted to marry Ashley Clare, in whose apartment he spent most of his nights.
Conal Moore. Conal was the cousin with whom Diarmit roomed when he came to London. Diarmit was semi-literate and could not read the postcards Conal sent him, so he had no idea when or if Conal would return. He believed that he himself had disappeared and began insisting his name was Conal Moore.
Yvonne. He fell deeply in love with her.
Anubis. Pup never really did an invocation, but chanted and stage acted. Dolly was terrified to see Anubis emerge from the incense smoke during the evocation. She saw him everywhere after that, even seeing him turn into a bus driver.
She had a birthmark on her cheek. Pup, who had quickly lost his interest in magic as he matured, was hoping she wouldn't ask him to remove it. Dolly hated cats and was responsible for the death of Mrs. Brewer's Fluffy. Mrs. Das heard Dolly yell and saw her drive the cat into traffic. She told Mrs. Brewer what she had seen, not because she liked cats, but because Mrs. Brewer was one of the few persons in the neighborhood who would speak to her since she was Indian.
All of these (To have a man to go about with and to talk to, To have a big house, To have security). "She was a trumpery, shallow, insincere woman was Myra, but she had her happinesses and her miseries like anyone else …"
On the underground platform. She took the little girl doll to Mrs. Leebridge, and coming home on the underground thought she encountered Myra. The crowded platform was the ideal place to push her under the subway. Just as she was ready to push, the bun-faced woman saw what she was doing and reacted with horror. Dolly ran out of the station, running into the real Myra in the crowd.
A geomancer. It was an obscure term for magician and would impress Dolly. His interest in magic soon faded, but he found it useful as an excuse to give the overprotective Dolly when he wanted be out in the evenings.
Edith and Myra. She began hearing her mother, Edith, speak after the séance with the Adonai Church of God Spiritists. Myra joined her after Dolly disrupted another séance with hysterical screaming. Mrs. Leebridge was furious that Roberta Fitterer, the medium, had been interrupted in her work "Look what that girl's done. … the ectoplasm rushing back like that, it's a wonder she's not all burned up." Mrs. Leebridge was a sucker for photographs of ectoplasm and other such fakery.
He survived George. Oddly, for a man who wanted to marry Ashley, George had not altered his will, thus leaving Yvonne a wealthy woman.
Her extraordinary beauty. "Dismay was what most women felt in the presence of Yvonne Colefax." But Myra liked her a great deal because she was always friendly and eager to please, and pitied her because her husband ignored her.
Myra and Ashley Clare. She also made a ballet girl, a little girl with yellow plaits, and an Indian boy, along with a doll that was a nightdress case for Yvonne.
Andrea. "She was the most domesticated of his girls, the only one who was houseproud, who could cook." She made him delicious dinners (eggs Benedict, chicken pies) in her tiny bedsit.
None of these. Myra died trying to abort herself with the syringe she had gotten from George's surgery. Dolly was convinced that Pup was responsible for her death since, on the night she died, Pup had been play-acting "We'll clobber the wicked stepmother!"
Her talisman. She lost it somewhere between the Mistley tunnel and home. Pup had made it for her; a seven-sided pendant painted green with the letters in red. She always wore it and tried to dress to compliment its colors.
"An Unkindness of Ravens". Down this path the police shadowed Veronica on her way to the tennis tournament. They knew someone was going to try to murder her, but they were very surprised at who the attacker was.
Polly Flinders. Pauline Flinders, actually: “… heaven knows what her parents were thinking about.” Polly Flinders is a character in an English children’s rhyme. I’ve never heard it, but then I was raised on the other side of the Atlantic.
| Ruth Rendell commits one of her rare howlers in this book. Why was it absurd for Wexford to consider Rose Farriner as being the murder victim? | Ruth Rendell: " A Sleeping Life"
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Rose Farriner was divorced. Rhoda Comfrey was a virgin. Odd of Inspector Wexford to have forgotten that. Odder still that Mike Burden did, because when Dr. Crocker reported on the autopsy he said the victim had nothing unusual except for being a virgin. That (of course) had Inspector Burden sputtering, “Good heavens, she was an unmarried woman, wasn’t she? Things have come to a pretty pass, I must say, if a perfectly proper condition for a single woman is called abnormal.”
All of these (Exotically beautiful, Artfully naïve and manipulative, A squalid housekeeper). Malina Patel was a genuine beach tree to plain, bucktoothed Polly, who was a very easy target. Anyone else notice how often tidy vs. untidy housekeeping comes up in Ruth Rendell’s novels?
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