Q about Ruth Rendell: Inspector Burden
maggie...@my-deja.com
Rendell mystery did Burden get remarried at the end of the book?
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Martin Underwood
maggie...@my-deja.com wrote in message <7ocdaq$gpg$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Trivia question which is driving my office crazy: in which Ruth
>Rendell mystery did Burden get remarried at the end of the book?
>
>Thanks for your help!
Don't thank me too soon - I haven't actually got the answer!
I've checked the books that I have and all I can say is that it's after "No
More Dying Then" (1971) when Burden's first wife Jean has died and Burden is
having it off^H^H^H^H^H^H an affair with Gemma, the mother of a little boy
who has gone missing. And it's before "Put On By Cunning" (1981) when Burden
and Jenny seem to be married. Unfortunately my books list all the Wexford
stories in alphabetic rather than chronological order, so I can't narrow it
down to one of the book written between those dates - unless you've got a
chronological list.
I think I remember the episode on TV - Burden met Jenny at a garden party
while he and Wexford were solving a murder of someone (?) in a chemist's
shop (?). Sorry, I can't remember any more details than that.
I can also eliminate:
From Doon To Death (1964) (far too early - Jean's probably still
alive)
Murder being Once Done (1972) (I don't think Burden even appears)
Wolf To The Slaughter (1967) (also too early)
Some Lie And Some Die (1973) (Burden is considering marrying Grace,
Jean's sister)
The Veiled One (1988) (By now he's married to Jenny)
A New Lease OF Death (1969)
An Unkindness Of Ravens (1985) (Jenny is expecting their first child)
Road Rage (1998) (Definitely too late!)
So what does that leave us with:
The Best Man To Die (Don't think so)
A Guilty Thing Surprised
Shake Hands Forever
A Sleeping Life
The Speaker Of Mandarin
Martin Underwood
The Internet Movie Database (uk.imdb.com) lists "Some Lie And Some Die" as
the first Wexford story (made in 1990) in which Diane Keen appears as Jenny
Burden. However I can't find any reference to her in the book so I think she
must have been introduced in a later book and Meridian TV got their
chronology a bit mixed up!
Anetta Meriranta Pirinen
> Trivia question which is driving my office crazy: in which Ruth
> Rendell mystery did Burden get remarried at the end of the book?
>
Mike Burden marries Jenny Ireland in the short story 'When the Wedding Was
Over' In the collection "Means of Evil and Other Stories". (London 1979)
Also in the collection: 'Means of Evil', 'Old Wives' Tales', 'Ginger and
the Kingsmarkham Chalk Circle' and 'Achille's Heel'.
Anetta to reply: change "nospam" to "pirinen"
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