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Observer: New Review: Books: MEET THE AUTHOR Ruth Rendell
2013
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After starring in 23 books, Inspector Reginald Wexford is still solving crime in your latest, No Man's Nightingale, when he might be enjoying his recent retirement. At 83, you are doing much the same thing. Does Wexford still reflect your perspectives on life? I probably do use both, although maybe I shouldn't. I call these books \"the political Wexfords\" because they are about subjects I care about. It started with Simisola really, which was about racist behaviour. Then I tackled the environment, and then domestic violence in Harm Done. Wexford is a Liberal Democrat though, and I am a Labour party member, in fact a Labour peer, so I am further to the left than him. Having said that, my books are not political really, even though I call them that. I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. I have found that if I stop to write down a plan for the story, it all goes away. So I just write it as it comes and then go over it with great care. Maybe The Murder at the Vicarage was in the back of my mind, you never know. I did read a lot of [Agatha Christie] a very long time ago. I don't read much crime fiction now. I mention Wilkie Collins in this book because a beautiful young girl's fate is to be decided in a letter. I read a lot of Victorian novels, so I suppose the comparison, especially with their neat endings, is often there. Collins was damaged as a writer by taking all that laudanum, but The Woman in White is a very good novel.
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