Put on By Cunning
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 1st edition (UK) | |
| Author | Ruth Rendell |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Inspector Wexford #11 |
| Genre | Crime, Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Hutchinson (UK) Pantheon Books (US) |
Publication date | 13 April 1981 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 207 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-09-144120-X Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
| OCLC | 7587626 |
| 823/.914 19 | |
| LC Class | PR6068.E63 P87 1981 |
| Preceded by | A Sleeping Life |
| Followed by | The Speaker of Mandarin |
Put on by Cunning is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1981, and features her popular series protagonist Inspector Wexford. It is the 11th in the series.
The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act V Scene II:
- "How these things came about: so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I Truly deliver".
(In the US, the novel was published under the title Death Notes.)
Synopsis
When the esteemed flautist Sir Manuel Camargue slips on a snowy path one dark night and falls into an icy river, his death seems like an open and shut case. However, when Wexford discovers that the old man's long lost daughter has just arrived in anticipation of the reading of his will, suspicions of foul play arise...
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