Ruth Rendell of the last 40 years into her work, bringing awareness to such issues as domestic violence. The Inspector Wexford series was successfully televised, starring George Baker as Inspector Wexford and Christopher Ravenscroft as Detective Mike Burden, under the title "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries", with 48 episodes from 1987 to 2000. Rendell praised Baker's performance, stating "It was a marvellous achievement as an actor to make him more and better than the author intended." Many of her other works have been adapted for film and television. She said that Chabrol's 1995 version of "A Judgement in Stone", "La Cérémonie" with Sandrine
Inspector Hornleigh films were made because Sim wished to move on to other projects in order to avoid being typecast. A subsequent television adaptation was made in West Germany in 1961, with Helmut Peine appearing as Hornleigh. The character appears in: Inspector Hornleigh Inspector Hornleigh is a fictional British detective from Scotland Yard, the chief protagonist of a popular BBC radio series of the 1930s, "Inspector Hornleigh Investigates", devised by Hans Priwin and played by actor S. J. Warmington. The series ran on the BBC's National station from 1937 to 1940, as one element in a 50-minute show entitled "Monday Night at