tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post5991798975972963664..comments2024-03-11T00:52:06.529+10:30Comments on MYSTERIES in PARADISE: Review: THE MONSTER IN THE BOX, Ruth RendellKerriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-36252574196601646902010-07-27T05:15:56.983+09:302010-07-27T05:15:56.983+09:30I'm not sure that this is the last Wexford: h...I'm not sure that this is the last Wexford: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/05/rendell-killing-off-wexford.<br /><br />If I remember correctly, I heard Rendell deny it herself in a US appearance, but I may be confusing other exaggerated reports of literary deaths I've heard denied.<br /><br />I think these reports, followed by denials, sometimes come about because an author gets bored with her creation rather faster than do most readers, and all publishers, and a bit of the tug of war becomes public.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-8717184488238000382010-07-26T06:44:29.995+09:302010-07-26T06:44:29.995+09:30This is an interetsing perspective DEb. There wasn...This is an interetsing perspective DEb. There wasn't much backstory that I felt I had seen before (about his courtship etc) so I thought perhaps these were details Rendell had noted down but never used.Kerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-45668447252443557952010-07-25T23:28:40.757+09:302010-07-25T23:28:40.757+09:30I'm sorry to hear that Rendell has said this w...I'm sorry to hear that Rendell has said this will be the last Wexford because, as huge a Rendell/Wexford fan as I am, this book was a big disappointment to me. It wasn't just the shifts in time that were sometimes confusing, but the whole story itself had a rather let-down feeling. Possibly she cobbled parts of it together from sequences that she had edited out of previous Rexford books. Anyway, it just didn't hang together for me.Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-85970203181671672972010-07-25T11:27:56.874+09:302010-07-25T11:27:56.874+09:30Kerrie - Oh, no, of course police officers would n...Kerrie - Oh, no, of course police officers would never stalk...<br />Interesting question about whether Rendell wrote this one a while ago. I wouldn't be at all surprised, come to think of it. Her descriptions of Wexford's early life just seem as though this wasn't something recent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-64199290264405724952010-07-25T10:38:49.889+09:302010-07-25T10:38:49.889+09:30In an interesting sideline, I thought Wexfor's...In an interesting sideline, I thought Wexfor's monitoring of Targo's movements was also a bit like stalking, but of course police officers never stalk do they? even when they are doing it in their own time?<br />I'm a bit inclined to the view (as Random Jottings said) that she wrote this some time back - what do you think Margot?Kerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-37473685333636950222010-07-25T10:24:03.235+09:302010-07-25T10:24:03.235+09:30Kerrie - Thanks for this thoughtful and fine revie...Kerrie - Thanks for this thoughtful and fine review. I'm glad that you enjoyed the book, despite the time frame thing. I agree that the book didn't have that "out-with-a-bang" quality, but like you, I enjoyed it. I actually liked it quite a lot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com