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Put on By Cunning

1981 novel by Ruth Rendell

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.

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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

  1. [1]
    "DEATH NOTES | Kirkus Reviews". 14 September 1981.


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