About this season
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
Episodes (9)
1. Some Lie and Some Die: Part One
Aired 30 September 1990 • 60 min
The Kingsmarkham rock festival is going smoothly until the disfigured body of of a local girl, thought to be living in London, is found in a nearby quarry. Wexford investigates the links between a charismatic singer and a young woman gone to the bad.
2. Some Lie and Some Die: Part Two
Aired 7 October 1990 • 60 min
3. Some Lie and Some Die: Part Three
Aired 14 October 1990 • 60 min
4. The Best Man to Die: Part One
Aired 21 October 1990 • 60 min
Wexford joins forces with the bridegroom when his best man is killed at the stag party. And Charlie Hatton's death is only the first in a string of murders which seem to be about cheating husbands, loose women and gangsters.
5. The Best Man to Die: Part Two
Aired 28 October 1990 • 60 min
6. The Best Man to Die: Part Three
Aired 4 November 1990 • 60 min
7. An Unkindness of Ravens: Part One
Aired 11 November 1990 • 60 min
Rodney Williams disappears and then his body found in the woods. Wexford investigates and finds more than one mystery.
8. An Unkindness of Ravens: Part Two
Aired 18 November 1990 • 60 min
9. Put on by Cunning
Aired 24 December 1990
When a world-famous flautist is murdered Wexford wonders if his recently returned daughter had anything to do with it. He becomes obsessed with proving that she is an imposter, even getting permission to travel as far afield as the USA and France to do so.