One of the best-written detective series in the genre's history is ending. With "The Monster in the Box," Ruth Rendell says farewell to Reginald Wexford, her popular chief inspector of Kingsmarkham, a ...
KISSING THE GUNNER'S DAUGHTER, by Ruth Rendell, Mysterious Press, $19.95. This may be Rendell's finest Inspector Wexford adventure to date. Its brilliantly tight construction relies on a series of ...