Inspector Wexford
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Chief Inspector Reginald 'Reg' Wexford is the popular fictional character created by novelist Ruth Rendell, and is protagonist of 20 of her bestselling novels. Wexford (and Rendell) debuted in 1964 with the publication of From Doon With Death. It was the first in one of the most popular and long-running detective series of recent times. Wexford was played in the acclaimed TV series of the same name by British actor George Baker. Wexford made his 20th appearance in Rendell's latest novel, End in Tears (2005).
Reg Wexford is married to Dora, with whom he has two daughters, Sheila and Sylvia. All often feature in the series (perhaps most notably in the novel Road Rage, in which Dora is taken hostage by a group of environmental activists protesting the construction of Kingsmarkham bypass). Wexford works alongside Detective Mike Burden. His nephew, a Superintendent, also features in a couple of the books.
(For a chronological list of all Wexford's cases, see: Ruth Rendell)
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Listing of the Wexford mysteries brought to TV, courtesy of IMDB (with dates of broadcasting in the UK): 1987: Wolf to the Slaughter; 1988: A Guilty Thing Surprised, Shake Hand Forever, No Crying He Makes; 1989: No More Dying Then, A Sleeping Life, The Veiled One; 1990: Some Lie and Some Die, The Best Man to Die, An Unkindness of Ravens, Put on by Cunning, A New Lease of Death; 1991: Murder Being Once Done, From Doon with Death, Means of Evil, Achilles Heel; 1992: An Unwanted Woman, The Speaker of Mandarin, The Mouse in the Corner, Kissing the Gunner's Daughter; 1996: Simisola; 1998: Road Rage.
