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
Derrick (TV series) Derrick (TV series) Derrick is a German TV crime series produced between 1974 and 1998 starring Horst Tappert as Detective Chief Inspector ("Kriminaloberinspektor") Stephan Derrick, and Fritz Wepper as Detective Sergeant ("Kriminalhauptmeister") Harry Klein, his loyal assistant. They solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings (with three unsolved cases in total). It was produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG "Derrick" is considered to be one of the most successful television programmes in German television history, it was also a major international success and the series was sold in over 100 countries. On 2