The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

Season 10

1997 · 7 episodes · 7h 0m in all · 7.0/10

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Double

   3 Jan 1997 · 60 min

   Lisa meets Zoe, who is as much like her as an identical twin, but entirely out of the common rut - and dramatic events ensue which change both their lives.

2. 2

   2. Bribery and Corruption: Part One

   17 Jan 1997 · 60 min

   Nicholas Hawthorne is a young engineer, recently made redundant and looking for a job in the boat-building industry. He has a very realistic nightmare about a woman being murdered. Then, on an unsuccessful dinner date, Nicholas spots Julian Sorensen, the boss of the firm which has laid him off, and the woman with him isn't his wife. Sorensen pays Nicholas's dinner bill. The next day, trying to pay back the money, Nicholas sees a photograph of Sorensen's wife - and she is the woman who was killed in his dream... Nicholas decides to investigate.

3. 3

   3. Bribery and Corruption: Part Two

   24 Jan 1997 · 60 min

   Part two of two. Nick's attempted suicide implicates him in Emma's death and Annabel casts light on the mystery.

4. 4

   4. Thornapple

   31 Jan 1997 · 60 min

   A boy obsessively collects poisons - and then he tries them out, with deadly results.

5. 5

   5. May and June: Part One

   7 Feb 1997 · 60 min · 7.0/10

   May Thrace and June Symonds are sisters, but their lives are very different. While June lives in the lap of luxury, May is struggling. And May becomes convinced that she has been done a great injustice.

6. 6

   6. May and June: Part Two

   14 Feb 1997 · 60 min · 7.0/10

   After accepting her sister's offer of reconciliation, May emerges from her mousy shell and seduces her sister's lover.

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   7. Front Seat

   21 Feb 1997 · 60 min

   Hugh and Cecily Branksome retire to the seaside town where they grew up. There they meet again Arnold Cottle, an old boyfriend of Cecily's. She goes to look for a public seat given to the town by her late father, who was a local alderman, and finds it was destroyed and later replaced by another seat given by a suspected murderer. With Arnold's help, she sets out to investigate the unsolved murder.