Put on By Cunning

Put on By Cunning
Put on By Cunning  
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Author(s) Ruth Rendell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Series Inspector Wexford #11
Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher Hutchinson
Publication date 13 April 1981
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 2007 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-09-144120-X (first edition, hardback)
OCLC Number 7587626
Dewey Decimal 823/.914 19
LC Classification PR6068.E63 P87 1981
Preceded by The Lake of Darkness
Followed by Master of the Moor

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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