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Put On By Cunning: (A Wexford Case) (Inspector Wexford series Book 11) by [Ruth Rendell]

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The eleventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

Sir Manuel Camargue, Kingsmarkham's very own celebrity flautist, dies tragically on a snowy night. His death is met with a ruling of misadventure and appears to be an open-and-shut-case. However Wexford, as the investigating officer, has a few niggling doubts.

Nineteen years later, Camargue's entrancing daughter, Natalie, now a considerable heiress, suddenly reappears in Kingsmarkham. When her fiancé appeals to Wexford for help, believing that Natalie is using a false identity, the case of the Camargues is once more under investigation.

Events soon take a gruesome twist and the pressure is on for Wexford to discover Natalie's true identity and to solve the mystery of the Camargue family, once and for all.

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'One of the best novelists writing today.' -- P.D. James

'The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time.' -- Patricia Cornwell

'Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world.' -- Ian Rankin

'[Wexford] has become an old friend who gets better with age.' -- The Herald

'Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed, obsession and fear.' -- The Sunday Times --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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The great flautist’s death seemed to Chief Inspector Wexford an open-and-shut case of misadventure, but with the return of his daughter after an absence of 19 years come a couple of niggling doubts ... --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

About the Author

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an acclaimed English crime writer, known for her many psychological thrillers and murder mysteries.

Charles Kay (born Charles Piff, 31 August 1930) is an English actor. In film, his highest profile role was as Count Orsini-Rosenberg in the Academy Award winning Amadeus. He also appeared in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, and the 2002 version of The Importance of Being Earnest. His numerous appearances on television include Fall of Eagles where he played Tsar Nicholas II, I, Claudius, To Serve Them All My Days, By the Sword Divided, Fortunes of War, Rumpole of the Bailey, The Citadel, Edge of Darkness, The Darling Buds of May, Jonathan Creek, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Holby City, Midsomer Murders and The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes story "The Creeping Man".

Audible is a seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming on the Internet. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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[Wexford] has become an old friend who gets better with age * Herald * One of the best novelists writing today -- P.D. James Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing. She displays her peerless skill in blending the mundane, commonplace aspects of life with the potent murky impulses of desire and greed, obsession and fear * Sunday Times * The most brilliant mystery novelist of our time -- Patricia Cornwell Probably the greatest living crime writer in the world -- Ian Rankin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Sir Manuel Camargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead.

Misadventure. An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into water to be trapped under a lid of ice. Only a glove remained to point where he lay, one of its fingers rising up out of the drifts.

There's nothing Chief Inspector Wexford likes better than an open-and-shut case. They're so restful. And yet there are one or two niggling doubts – and the disturbing return of Camargue's daughter, now a considerable heiress, after an absence of nineteen years.

Is Wexford going to listen to that nagging inner voice of his? And if he does, what exactly does he plan to do?

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

ASIN : B00351YESK
Publisher : Cornerstone Digital (19 January 2010)
Language: : English
File size : 383 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 199 pages

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Iain C. Davidson

Better than I remembered....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2014

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Its been a few years since I last read this mid-period Wexford novel and I seem to remember that it was not one of my favourites. It still isn't BUT it I did enjoy it much more than I expected to. It starts off really well and I liked the main trio of suspects, the Zoffanys and especially the charming and intriguing Natalie Arno. Then it goes a bit flat with Reg and Dora's trip to California which, ultimately, seems a bit unnecessary and really just an excuse for Rendell to write about foreign parts for a change! She really enjoys herself with the descriptive passages here (and again later on in the South of France) but I'm not sure that any of it adds much to the actual story. Things pick up a bit again towards the end though I do sometimes wish that Reg's explanations to his stooge Burden of 'how it all happened' weren't QUITE so drawn out as they always are! I'm sure most of the readers are quite a bit ahead of him by this time! Anyway, its all well thought out and quite clever and I did really enjoy re-reading this one.

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Milly

Definitely does not warrant a star.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2019

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The box was all cracked and CD1 does not play at all. CD2 very poor quality sound. Only fit for the bin and as it was abused rather than used, not worth sending back! I have bought a few of these Book CDs and had no problem before.

Charlie Aitken

Mmmmm

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2020

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Too ‘clever’? Too tricksy. I thought I knew where it was going until near the denouement. Strange tempo. In the end, less satisfying.

Unknown

how does she do it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2015

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what a great mind ruth rendall has a great story line a sure 5 istill did not suspect who was the killer.
highly reccommend this book to all who dunnit's

Jan Kim

Brilliant storytelling yet again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2017

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Love Ruth Rendell mysteries.

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