Rendell

British

/ rɛnˈdɛl, ˈrɛndəl /

noun

Ruth ( Barbara ), Baroness. born 1930, British crime writer: author of detective novels, such as Wolf to the Slaughter (1967), and psychological thrillers, such as The Lake of Darkness (1980) and (under the name Barbara Vine ) A Fatal Inversion (1987) and The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (1998)

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Though Rendell got USAir to put a flight operations center in nearby Moon a few years later, the airline was still broadly pulling back from Pittsburgh.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

According to Rendell, the evidence shows whales are mainly repeating the same phoneme over and over again instead of actually combining varieties of phonemes into complex words.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

But Rendell, who was not involved with the current work, worries the impulse to liken sperm whale communication with human language risks mistaking what’s distinctive about whales.

From Science Magazine • May 7, 2024

There was a blow for Manchester City goalkeeper Khiara Keating, who pulled out of the squad with a knee injury and has been replaced by Southampton's Kayla Rendell - her first senior call-up.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024

That his books couldn’t compare to the works of Ruth Rendell or James Ellroy, and that he wasn’t even fit to tie Elmore Leonard’s shoes.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson

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