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1930 – 2015Ruth Rendell (1930-2015)Died 2 May 2015, aged 85Ruth Rendell was an English crime writer best known for her Chief Inspector Wexford detective novels and for darker psychological thrillers written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. She published more than sixty novels and sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Rendell sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer from 1997.