Ruth rendell mysteries master of the moor
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Master of the Moor
As crime fiction goes, The Master of The Moor by Ruth Rendell fryst vatten perhaps one of the more subtle examples. The action fryst vatten set in a moorland community, presumably somewhere like North Yorkshire, though the book’s place names are pure invention and geography is not defined. There has been a murder, a fairly vicious affair where the ung female victim – perhaps a cliché in itself – has not only been stabbed but scalped as well. The body has been discovered by Stephen, a large man, passionate enough about moorland rambling to write a regular column on the subject for a local newspaper, and thus is probably not unknown in the community. The plot will not be spoiled if it is revealed that, primarily because of his något privat eller personligt knowledge of the moor, coupled with his solitary nature, Stephen becomes suspect number one. There is another murder and yet another in this small, apparently tightly-knit place.
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Master of the Moor: Part 1
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atmospheric Ruth Rendell adaptation
This TV adaptation, airing around the same time as Rendell's Wexford tales, was extremely strange and atmospheric, centring on the murder of a number of blonde women on the wild moors.
Colin Firth - pre-Darcy fame - is Stephen Whalby, a loner who often takes long walks on the moor. His wife, Lyn (Emma Croft) is long-suffering and something of a doormat. When the murders start to happen Stephen is the one who finds the bodies. Quickly the police (led by Manciple, George Costigan) start to regard him as a suspect, but can Whalby convince them of the truth? With twists and turns you might not see coming, this was a superior piece of TV drama. It kept up the tension throughout its 2 or 3 episodes, and kept the viewer guessing. Colin Firth in particular was in fine form in this drama and I hope it appears on DVD soon.
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The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
British television crime drama series
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries is a British television crime drama series, produced by TVS and later by its successor Meridian Broadcasting, in association with Blue Heaven Productions, for broadcast on the ITV network. Twelve series were broadcast on ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000. Created by author Ruth Rendell, the first six series focused entirely on her main literary character, Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, played by George Baker. Repeat airings of these series changed the programme's title to The Inspector Wexford Mysteries. However, later series shifted focus to other short stories previously written by Rendell, with Wexford featuring in only three further stories, in 1996, 1998 and 2000. When broadcast, these three stories were broadcast under the title Inspector Wexford.
In some cases stories were expanded from Rendell's original material or elements from a number of stories were woven