Season 11 Episode 9:The Orchard Walls
A 16-year-old evacuee is sent to live with relatives in the countryside at the height of the Blitz, and witnesses a clandestine liaison between her aunt and an injured pilot. Accidentally opening a can of worms, she sparks a chain of events which culminates in a gruesome discovery. Ruth Rendell mystery, starring Sylvia Syms, John McGlynn and Honeysuckle Weeks
Season 11 Episode 8:You Can't Be Too Careful
Delia moves into her new bedsit and becomes obsessed by her landlady's security worries to the extent she sleeps with a knife under her pillow : leading to a tragic encounter. Crime drama, starring June Barrie
Season 11 Episode 2:Going Wrong : Part Two(2001)
Part two. While attending a party with Celeste, Guy argues with Leonora's brother. He then asks Danny to kill him : but when he learns of an impending marriage, Guy realises he has targeted the wrong man. Drama, starring James Callis, Josephine Butler, Inday Ba and Rick Warden
Season 11 Episode 1:Going Wrong : Part One
Part one. A man and woman meet up five years after their teenage romance ended. He has become wealthy through unconventional business ventures and she is starting her first job. The relationship begins to take a sinister turn, however, when Leonora's parents show their disapproval, and Guy bumps into another old friend. Drama, starring James Callis, Josephine Butler, Inday Ba and Rick Warden
Season 10 Episode 8:A Dark Blue Perfume
A man returns to his home town with a new wife, but finds himself haunted by traumatic memories and struggles to overcome the past. Drama from the pen of the celebrated author, starring Susannah York and John Castle
Season 10 Episode 7:Front Seat
Retired couple Hugh and Cecily Branksome settle in the seaside town of their childhood, but their dreams of peace and tranquility are shattered by the appearance of an old flame of Cecily's. Melancholy drama, starring Janet Suzman, Richard Johnson, Joyce Redman and Edward Hardwicke
Season 10 Episode 6:Thornapple
When two bored teenagers are forced to move to the country, the death of an aunt puts them under suspicion of murder
Season 10 Episode 5:May and June : Part Two
Part two. When a funeral brings about the reconciliation of two estranged sisters, one of them is consumed by jealousy and murders her sibling, and takes over her identity and her home
Season 10 Episode 4:May and June : Part One(1997)
A woman encounters her recently widowed sister for the first time in 20 years, but the reunion revives old and bitter jealousies. Crime drama from the pen of the celebrated author, starring Phoebe Nicholls, Christine Kavanagh and Julian Wadham
Season 10 Episode 2:Bribery and Corruption : Part One(1997)
A man has visions of a woman being murdered and fears the nightmare was in fact a premonition. Matters are made worse when he sees his former boss dining with an unknown female companion, drawing him into a sordid world of bribery and corruption. Crime drama, starring James D'Arcy and Paul Freeman
Season 10 Episode 1:The Double
A woman is horrified when she sees her double, and murder is only a step away when her fiance begins an affair with the stranger
Season 9 Episode 6:A Case of Coincidence : Part One(1995)
Whodunit set in the fens, starring Keith Barron as Inspector Masters, a police officer investigating a woman's murder. All evidence points to the crime being the work of a serial killer already responsible for four deaths : until it transpires that no one could have known the latest victim was in the area. With Ronald Pickup, Caroline Bliss and Pip Torrens
Season 9 Episode 4:Secret House of Death : Part One
A woman discovers the bodies of a neighbour and another man in what appears to be a tragic suicide pact : but as the real details emerge, she realises her own life is in danger. starring Amanda Redman
Season 9 Episode 2:The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Simisola
Inspector Wexford ventures into the sensitive area of race relations to investigate the disappearance of a Nigerian doctor's daughter. The murder of a Job Centre clerk gives him his first clue : but cracking the case proves far from easy. Drama, starring George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Jane Lapotaire, Robin Kermode and George Harris
Season 8 Episode 4:Strawberry Tree : Part One(1994)
Drama from the pen of the celebrated author, about a middle-aged widow visited by a mystery man claiming to be her long-lost brother, who disappeared 40 years previously during a childhood holiday in Majorca. Lisa Harrow, Simon Ward and Eleanor Bron star
Season 8 Episode 3:Vanity Dies Hard : Part Three(1994)
Part three. The spinster's suspicions grow when her best friend mysteriously disappears, and as illness takes control she believes her ally was murdered. Leslie Phillips stars
Season 8 Episode 2:Vanity Dies Hard : Part Two(1994)
Part two of a moody whodunit from the pen of Britain's queen of crime fiction, starring Eleanor David as bride-to-be Alice Whittaker, whose marriage plans are thrown into turmoil by the disappearance of a close friend opposed to her impending nuptials. Disregarding assurances that there is nothing to worry about, Alice sets out to investigate : and soon uncovers evidence of foul play lurking just beneath the surface of local life. With Mark Frankel, Peter Egan, Jane Gurnett and Leslie Phillips
Season 8 Episode 1:Vanity Dies Hard : Part One(1994)
Part one. Moody mystery from the pen of crime-queen Ruth Rendell, starring Eleanor David as bride-to-be Alice Whittaker, whose marriage plans are thrown into turmoil by the disappearance of a close friend opposed to her impending nuptials. Disregarding assurances that there is nothing to worry about, Alice sets out to investigate : and soon uncovers evidence of foul play lurking just beneath the surface of local life. With Mark Frankel, Peter Egan, Jane Gurnett and Leslie Phillips
Season 3 Episode 4:A Sleeping Life(1992)
No one can tell Wexford anything about a middle-aged London spinster brutally murdered while visiting her dying father.
Season Special :Achilles Heel
Wexford is obsessed with a beautiful, married heiress in Corsica; back home, he investigates her kidnapping.
Season Special :Harm Done(2001)
A little girl goes missing; Wexford's investigation reveals the girl's mother has been abused by the father; a convicted pedophile gets out of prison.
Season Special :Heartstones : Part One(1996)
A girl finds herself growing closer to her father, and forgives him for killing her mother in an act of mercy : until she discovers he's planning to remarry. Drama, starring Anthony Andrews, Emily Mortimer and Daisy Haggard
Season Special :Heartstones : Part Two
Part two. Drama, starring Anthony Andrews. Elvira's relationship with her father deepens when she discovers her mother was having an affair with the Cathedral Architect
Season Special :The Lake of Darkness(1999)
An accountant has a big win on the lottery and thinks all his problems are over, but it isn't long before his change of fortune throws his life into more turmoil than he could ever have imagined. Having fallen for the woman of his dreams, the millionaire finds himself at the centre of a menage a trois : which ultimately ends in tragedy. Ruth Rendell mystery, starring Jerome Flynn, Sadie Frost, Nick Reding and Liz Smith
Season Special :Put On by Cunning
Only Wexford thinks the drowning death of a famous flutist suspicious. With Rossano Brazzi, Cherie Lunghi.
Season Special :Talking to Strange Men
A jilted husband discovers a means of getting revenge on his ex-wife's new lover - not realising what secrets it will bring to the surface. Detective drama , starring John Duttine, Keeley Hawes and Miles Anderson
The Fallen Curtain
A university graduate with psychological problems delves into the past to solve the mystery behind his unexplained 24-hour disappearance as a boy. Julia Booth and Ben Brazier star