Put On By Cunning (Inspector Wexford, #11)

by Ruth Rendell

Sir Manuel Carmargue, 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 the water to be trapped under a lid of ice. Only a glove remained to point to where he lay, one of its fingers rising 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 Carmargue'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?

• ISBN10: 0099277301
• ISBN13: 9780099277309
• Publish Date: 21 April 1994 (first published 1 January 1981)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 13 December 2013
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Cornerstone
• Imprint: Arrow Books Ltd
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 208
• Language: English

Reviews

[Cameron Trost]

This engaging mystery complete with red herrings and a handful of twists has Wexford following a hunch across the pond and the channel before wrapping the case up back in Kingsmarkham.