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Wexford comes to the rescue! - Buxton Today

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:23:43 -0700

George Baker – also known as TV star Inspector Wexford – has stepped into the shoes of detective novelist Kate Atkinson after she had to pull out of Buxton Festival's literary series.

Lost Graham Greene novel to be serialised in Strand magazine

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:57:33 -0700

Lost Graham Greene novel to be serialised in Strand magazine: The Empty Chair, an unfinished country...

Transworld to publish new Jack Frost novels

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:28:25 -0700

Transworld to publish new Jack Frost novels: Transworld has signed a deal to publish two new Jack...

TV doc helps West Lavington youth club (From This Is Wiltshire)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:52:07 -0700

Actor Simon Shepherd helped boost the coffers of West Lavington youth club when he appeared at a fund-raising event.

Karl Malden 1912 - 2009

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:10:47 -0700

Karl Malden 1912 - 2009

Internet: Over-60s — Question: 25 Jun 2009: House of Lords debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:10:47 -0700

Baroness Rendell of Babergh (Labour): To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that people over the age of 60 are able to access the internet.

West Lavington Youth Club's cash crisis (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:03:12 -0700

West Lavington Youth Club is facing having to cut its opening hours – at the same time as receiving a national award for keeping young people away from drink and drugs.

West Yorkshire Playhouse: Bedroom Farce 6 June 2009 to 4 July 2009.

Fri, 08 May 2009 06:57:44 -0700

Christopher Ravenscroft to appear in Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce.

Rendell denies killing off Inspector Wexford

Tue, 05 May 2009 03:34:38 -0700

Veteran detective still 'living and breathing', insists novelist

Ruth Rendell has denied reports that she has written her last Inspector Wexford novel, insisting that the veteran investigator is alive and well and ready for more adventures.

A report in the Telegraph yesterday suggested that Rendell, 79, didn't want to write any more Wexford novels after this autumn's publication of The Monster in the Box, her 22nd mystery featuring Detective Chief Inspector Reg Wexford. But her longtime editor, Paul Sidey at Hutchinson, said this morning that Wexford was still "living and breathing".

"I was rather surprised to hear the news, and having just spoken to Ruth she said nothing of the kind," he said. "So on it goes. I'm in my 27th year as her editor and I'd be very disappointed to lose Reggie from my life."

The Monster in the Box is published this October and casts a new light on the diligent inspector who first appeared in Rendell's 1964 debut From Doon with Death, seeing him grapple with an unsolved mystery from his past when the suspected killer returns to Kingsmarkham. Rendell also depicts Wexford's courtship of the woman who would later become his wife.

"It does reframe the Wexford story. You see him in his early years as a young policeman, meeting his wife-to-be. It's quite clever the way she's used a contemporary story and framed it with something which happened in his early years. It gives another view on the whole Wexford story," said Sidey.

Rendell, who also writes as Barbara Vine, is the author of more than 70 books, a four-time winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger for Fiction award, the recipient of a CBE and in 1997 of a lifetime peerage.

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Tabard Road - The Monster in the Box: An Inspector Wexford Novel

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:41:56 -0700

When Reg Wexford starts out as a young police officer, he is involved with a murder case where the perpetrator is not brought to justice. All these years, Wexford has harboured suspicions about the possible killer, who suddenly returns to Kingsmarkham. There are other apparently unrelated deaths, and once more Wexford is on the trail to uncover the evidence that will make the crucial connections. Ruth Rendell takes us back in time, not only to resolve a series of crimes, but to show Wexford as a young man, meeting Dora, his future wife, and developing into the unique, instinctive yet methodical detective that he becomes.

Lavington youth group boosted by actor's TV appearance

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:04:35 -0700

Veteran actor George Baker had to leave his hospital bed to take part in the filming of an episode of Celebrity Cash in the Attic at Aldridge’s saleroom in Devizes on Saturday.

Cash in the Celebrity Attic: George Baker

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:15:09 -0800

Showing on BBC 2 at 5:15pm, May 5th for 40 minutes. Angela Rippon and the Cash In The Celebrity Attic team visit much loved Inspector Wexford star George Baker in his beautiful country cottage. He hopes to raise 700 pounds for his local youth club. Will the team's investigations uncover enough collectables, or will the veteran actor and his co-star Christopher Ravenscroft leave the auction empty handed?

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Set 4

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:39:25 -0800

Two Inspector Wexford episodes (Simisola and Road Rage ) released in the US on 14 April, 2009.