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Ruth Rendell | 10 pages | 01 Dec 1998 | Random House USA Inc | 9780345348111 | English | New York, United States A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford, #5) by

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Build up your Halloween Watchlist with our list of the most popular horror titles on Netflix in October. See the list. When Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered, DCI Wexford has to sort his way through quite a number of suspects - from the gardener to the household staff, to a permanent Dutch house guest, to the husband Quentin and the victim's brother and his wife. While trying to figure out what really happened on that fateful night that cost Elizabeth's life, Reg Wexford uncovers that the Nightingales' marriage was not as happy as it seemed and that there is a dark secret to be revealed. Written by Jasper P. In a small country manor estate a small staff live and work together servicing the needs of the Nightingale family. A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery Villiers is there to work as a writer and tends to stay away from everyone else, while his sister doesn't get on with him and his wife tends to not see him that much either. They don't need to ask too many questions before they realise that the relationships and secrets within the small community are not as clear as they first appear. Although I'm not a massive fan of the Wexford series I must admit that if you can take the rather downbeat pace, they generally do unfold reasonably well and make for an interesting TV detective show. The plot here is solid enough and although it never set me on fire, it was just about enough to keep me interested. The gradual picking at the case worked pretty well and the audience learn the facts and lies at the same time A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery Wexford and his men do. Of course to many viewers the straight-down-the-middle delivery will be actually pretty dull and, as time goes by, it looks duller and duller as TV cop shows generally require more style and gimmicks to hook the audience. Personally I did find it a bit dull and lacking in entertainment value but it was solid enough to distract. The cast don't really help that much either. I'm sure it is being loyal to the books etc but you have to wonder if he didn't occasionally want to inject an bit of life into his character. Ravenscroft is much the same and doesn't have much energy even if he is a bit more interesting than Baker. Support from Terry, Jayston, Meagher and others is all much of a muchness although again I suppose it is the fault of the material that it is all a bit lifeless and serious but nobody does anything A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery make it better. Overall then a solid detective story but one that id delivered without any sense of fun or flair. The story is interesting enough which is just as well because it isn't that entertaining otherwise, certainly those raised on CSI and the like will be bored to tears by this even if it is of some value. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery next A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. Ruth Rendell Mysteries — Rate This. Season 2 Episode 1. All Episodes When Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered, DCI Wexford has to sort his way through quite a number of suspects - from the gardener to the household staff, to a permanent Dutch house guest, to Director: Mary McMurray. Writers: Clive Exton dramatisationRuth Rendell novel. Added to Watchlist. The Best Horror Movies on Netflix. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Photos Add Image Add an image Do you have any images for this title? Edit Cast Episode cast overview, first billed only: George Baker Chief Insp. Wexford Christopher Ravenscroft Inspector Burden Michael Jayston Quentin Nightingale Catherine Neilson Elizabeth Nightingale Nigel Terry Denys Villiers Karen Meagher Georgina Villiers Ellis Van Maarseveen Katje Doorn Padraig O'Loinsigh Sean Lovell David Swift Lionel Marriott Sandra Voe Myrtle Cantrip Kate David Lovell John Burgess Len Crocker Louie Ramsay Dora Wexford Ann Penfold Jean Burden Noah Huntley Edit Storyline When Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered, DCI Wexford has to sort his way through quite a number of suspects - from the gardener to the household staff, to a permanent Dutch house guest, to the husband Quentin and the victim's brother and his wife. Edit Did You Know? Trivia The title is taken A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery a line in Wordsworth's 'Ode to Immortality': "High instincts, before which our mortal nature, Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Edit Details Country: UK. Language: English. Runtime: 60 min 3 episodes. Color: Color. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. A Guilty Thing Surprised • Episodes • Inspector Wexford

Get weekly recommendations and eBook deals in our newsletter Sign up. One of the most famous sleuths of the twentieth century, Inspector Wexford is a sensitive man with an attention to detail fitting of any super-sleuth and an uncanny knack of teasing out the truth. Ruth Rendell is a true crime legend and her Inspector Wexford series are a perfect place to wind away several hours in the English countryside working out whodunit. From Doon With Death. A New Lease of Death. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. Until now…. He wants to prove Wexford wrong, and in probing into the lives of the witnesses questioned all those years ago, he stirs up more than old ghosts. Wolf to the Slaughter. Anita Margolis has vanished. There was no body, no crime — nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and the intriguing name of Smith. With the letter providing them with only one questionable lead to follow, Wexford and his sidekick Inspector Burden are compelled to make enquiries. They soon discover Anita is wealthy, flighty, and thoroughly immoral. The straight-laced Burden has a very clear idea of what happened to her. But Wexford has his own suspicions…. The Best Man to Die. A man and his daughter lie dead after a car accident. Strangely, no other car was involved and no cause has been found. Walking by the canal that same morning, Wexford discovered the bloody body of Charlie Hatton. A Guilty Thing Surprised. Called in to investigate, Chief Inspector Wexford quickly determines that the Nightingales were considered the perfect couple — wealthy, attractive and without an enemy in the world. However, someone must have been alone with Elizabeth that night in the woods. Someone who hated — or perhaps loved — her enough to beat her to death. The case seems straightforward. . On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappears — never to be seen again. There were no clues, no demands and no traces. And there was nowhere else for Wexford and his team to look. All that remained was the cold fear and awful dread that touched everyone in Kingsmarkham. Just months later, another child vanishes — five- year-old John Lawrence. Wexford and Inspector Burden are launched into another investigation and, all too quickly, they discover chilling similarities to the Stella Rivers case. Then the letters begin. The horrifying, evil, threatening letters of a madman. And suddenly Wexford is fighting against time to find the missing boy, before he meets the same fate as poor Stella…. Murder Being Done Once. But this is no peaceful burial. This is a brutal murder scene. Under strict orders from his doctor to indulge in no criminal investigation, Wexford is sent to London for a break away from the pressures of the Kingsmarkham police force. But then he discovers that his nephew Howard is heading the investigation into the macabre murder of Loveday Morgan, whose body was found abandoned in Kenbourne Cemetery. Despite opposition from Howard and his team, Wexford is drawn to the case. Some Lie and Some Die. When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. Through an intricate web of lies and deceit, Wexford uncovers a history of love and hate that began years earlier. In all his years of police work, he has never been faced with a crime of such desperate passion…. . Angela Hathall is found strangled in her bed but, shockingly, the murder of this meek and solitary woman sparks little emotion from her husband. As the A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery develops Wexford is increasingly frustrated by the seemingly pointless nature of the murder. There is no motive, no weapon and no suspect. Nothing except the unidentified print. But despite the sparse evidence, Wexford is convinced Hathall is hiding something. So when Wexford is taken off the case he decides to take matters into his own hands…. A Sleeping Life. On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small boy. There are only two things that surprise Wexford about the murder scene. And two, how even in death, her deathly grey eyes possess a scornful glare. But her existence there becomes frustratingly impossible to trace. Put On By Cunning. His death is met with a ruling of misadventure and appears to be an open-and-shut-case. However Wexford, as the investigating officer, has a few niggling doubts. The Speaker of Mandarin. Wherever Reggie Wexford goes, death and intrigue are close on his heels. Having just returned from a once-in-a-lifetime holiday in China, A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery finds himself haunted by memories of the old woman with bound feet who mysteriously followed him from one city to the next and the man who tragically drowned. Now, back A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery England, he finds himself investigating the murder of a fellow tourist. Knowing that the clue to these three mysteries lies in the East, Wexford turns his investigative skills to that place of unfathomable and sinister depths…. . The raven: not a particularly predatory bird, but far from soft and submissive, adopted as the symbol A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery a militant feminist group…. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. He had committed no crime — apart from telling his wife the occasional lie…. The Veiled One. In the desolate shopping centre car park, Wexford has been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary — only the teenage girl in the red car, driving past him rather too fast. It was Burden who called him at home with the grim news later that evening: the woman had been attacked from behind, perhaps with a thin length of wire. But before Wexford can delve any deeper into this curious murder, he, too, faces death… Can Burden solve this mysterious crime without the help of his worldly Chief Inspector? The thirteenth of May is famously the unluckiest day of the year. Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID had no idea just how terminally unlucky it would prove, as he embarked upon his last day on earth…. Ten months later, Wexford is confronted with a murder scene of horrific brutality. At first the bloodbath at Tancred House looks like the desperate work of a burglar panicked into murder. The sole survivor of the massacre, seventeen-year-old Daisy Flory, remembers the events imperfectly, and her confused account of the fatal night seems to confirm this theory. But more and more, Chief Inspector Wexford is convinced that the crime lies closer to home, and that it has sinister links to the murder of Sergeant Martin…. Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. Melanie, just down from university but unable to find a job, disappeared somewhere between the Benefit Office and the bus stop. Or at least no one saw her get on the bus when it came…. When the body of a young black woman is discovered, Wexford must overcome his underlying prejudices to allow his investigative skills to succeed. . A by-pass is planned in the sleepy village of A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery, a move that would destroy its peace and natural habitat forever. Trouble is expected. Before the protesters even have a chance to make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young woman is discovered. Burden believes he knows the identity of the murderer, but Wexford is not A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery. Just as Wexford is about to investigate the murder, a A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery of people disappear — including Dora Wexford. The Chief Inspector must battle with his powerful emotions and solve the case immediately, before his wife is placed in any mortal danger…. . A notorious paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of the Muriel Campden Estate are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their own hands…. Chief Inspector Wexford is faced with the effects of violence and A Guilty Thing Surprised: An Inspector Wexford Mystery every day as a policeman, and he is also involved with a new programme to help victims of domestic violence. His daughter, Sylvia, has come to work nearby in a refuge for battered women. Her marriage is not a happy one, although her husband has never raised a hand to her. They are merely incompatible. Other women in Kingsmarkham are not so lucky…. Wexford is soon called upon to investigate two extremely serious crimes which will affect the lives and attitudes of police and innocent villagers alike….