Put on By Cunning

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Put on by Cunning is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell.[1] It was first published in 1981, and features her popular series protagonist Inspector Wexford. It is the 11th in the series.

Put on By Cunning
First edition (UK)
AuthorRuth Rendell
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Wexford #11
GenreCrime, Mystery novel
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
Pantheon Books (US)
Publication date
13 April 1981
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages207 pp
ISBN0-09-144120-X
OCLC7587626
823/.914 19
LC ClassPR6068.E63 P87 1981
Preceded byA Sleeping Life 
Followed byThe Speaker of Mandarin 

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.

References

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  1. ^ "DEATH NOTES | Kirkus Reviews". 14 September 1981.