Put On By Cunning - Couverture souple

Rendell, Ruth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099277301 ISBN 13 : 9780099277309

Editeur : Arrow Books Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

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?

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Ruth Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, and will be remembered as a legend in her own lifetime. Her groundbreaking debut novel, From Doon With Death, was first published in 1964 and introduced the reader to her enduring and popular detective, Inspector Reginald Wexford, who went on to feature in twenty-four of her subsequent novels.

With worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, Rendell was a regular Sunday Times bestseller. Her sixty bestselling novels include police procedurals, some of which have been successfully adapted for TV, stand-alone psychological mysteries, and a third strand of crime novels under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Very much abreast of her times, the Wexford books in particular often engaged with social or political issues close to her heart.

Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Ruth Rendell died in May 2015. Her final novel, Dark Corners, is scheduled for publication in October 2015

Quatrième de couverture

'You're over-pessimistic,' said Chief Inspector Wexford, 'if a man begins with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.'

The tragic death of Manuel Camargue, Kingsmarkham's very own celebrity flautist, is met with a ruling of misadventure. But when, after an absence of nineteen years, Camargue's entrancing daughter Natalie reappears, Dinah, his fiancée, goes to Wexford for help.

Dinah believes Natalie is not who she claims to be. Knowing there is a large inheritance at stake, Wexford begins to investigate.

But then events take a gruesome twist and now, more than ever, Wexford must establish Natalie's true identity.

'Ms Rendell exercises a grip as relentless as an anaconda's' Guardian

A WEXFORD CASE
Chief Inspector Wexford is one of the most memorable detectives ever created.
Ruth Rendell's timeless Wexford novels continue to intrigue, enthral and surprise readers time and time again.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arrow Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099277301
• ISBN 13: 9780099277309
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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