The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Some Lie and Some Die: Part One
Sep 30, 1990 · 60 min
The Kingsmarkham rock festival is going smoothly until the disfigured body of of a local girl, thought to be living in London, is found in a nearby quarry. Wexford investigates the
The Best Man to Die: Part One
Oct 21, 1990 · 60 min
Wexford joins forces with the bridegroom when his best man is killed at the stag party. And Charlie Hatton's death is only the first in a string of murders which seem to be about c
An Unkindness of Ravens: Part One
Nov 11, 1990 · 60 min
Rodney Williams disappears and then his body found in the woods. Wexford investigates and finds more than one mystery.
Put on by Cunning
Dec 24, 1990
When a world-famous flautist is murdered Wexford wonders if his recently returned daughter had anything to do with it. He becomes obsessed with proving that she is an imposter, eve