Inspector Wexford books in order
Inspector Wexford is a series of 18 books by Ruth Rendell: 2,964 pages in the 10 with a known length, about 54 hours of reading. Shown in publication order; no numbering is on record.
- 18
- books
- 2,964
- pages in 10 of them
- 54 hours
- to read those 10
- 109 days
- at 30 minutes a day
Wolf to the Slaughter 4.0 h 
The Best Man to Die 3.6 h 
No More Dying Then 4.0 h 
A Sleeping Life 3.7 h 
The Veiled One 5.2 h 
Simisola 6.7 h 
Road Rage 7.0 h 
Harm Done 8.1 h 
The Babes in the Wood 6.0 h 
End in Tears 6.2 h Bar height shows length. Books without a number have no number in our records.
The books
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A New Lease of Death 1967 length not known
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Wolf to the Slaughter 1967 4.0 h
The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.
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The Best Man to Die 1969 3.6 h
The fourth in the Chief Inspector Wexford series, reissued in B format to tie-in with the long awaited new Wexford prequel, Monster in the Box.A man and his daughter lie dead…
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A Guilty Thing Surprised 1970 length not known
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No More Dying Then 1971 4.0 h
This Inspector Wexford duo debuted back-to-back in 1972.Murder finds the British sleuth defying doctor's orders and investigating the death of a young girl, while Dying (LJ 7/72)…
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A Sleeping Life 1978 3.7 h
Criminals always took their holidays in August, Chief Inspector Wexford erroneously reflected as he arrived home early that hot summer night.
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Put on By Cunning 1981 length not known
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The Speaker of Mandarin 1983 length not known
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An Unkindness of Ravens 1985 length not known
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The Veiled One 1988 5.2 h
A classic Chief Inspector Wexford MysteryThe woman's body lay between a silver Escort and a dark-blue Lancia.
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Simisola 1994 6.7 h
Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham.
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Road Rage 1997 7.0 h
La construction d'une route va entraîner la disparition du grand bois de Framhust.
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Harm Done 1999 8.1 h
In Britain, a pedophile's house is burned by an angry mob when a girl disappears, the man having been recently released from jail.
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The Babes in the Wood 2002 6.0 h
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End in Tears 2005 6.2 h
The twentieth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.
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Not in the Flesh 2007 length not known
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The Monster in the Box 2009 length not known
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The Vault 2011 length not known
How much is left
| After A New Lease of Death | about 54 hours left, not counting 7 books of unknown length |
| After Wolf to the Slaughter | about 50 hours left, not counting 7 books of unknown length |
| After The Best Man to Die | about 47 hours left, not counting 7 books of unknown length |
| After A Guilty Thing Surprised | about 47 hours left, not counting 6 books of unknown length |
| After No More Dying Then | about 43 hours left, not counting 6 books of unknown length |
| After A Sleeping Life | about 39 hours left, not counting 6 books of unknown length |
| After Put on By Cunning | about 39 hours left, not counting 5 books of unknown length |
| After The Speaker of Mandarin | about 39 hours left, not counting 4 books of unknown length |
| After An Unkindness of Ravens | about 39 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length |
| After The Veiled One | about 34 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length |
| After Simisola | about 27 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length |
| After Road Rage | about 20 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length |
| After Harm Done | about 12 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length |
| After The Babes in the Wood | about 6 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length |
Reading the whole series
About 54 hours 20 minutes
10 of 18 books, 2,964 pages. Estimated at 250 words a minute.
109 days (about 16 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.