Put on By Cunning

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Put on By Cunning
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First edition (UK)
AuthorRuth Rendell
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Wexford #11
GenreCrime, Mystery novel
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
Pantheon Books (US)
Publication date
13 April 1981
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 

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.


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