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    Put on by Cunning
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    Put on by Cunning

    Written by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by George Baker

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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… Read by ITV’s Inspector Wexford, George Baker.

    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 to 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 naggin inner voice of his? and if he does, what exactly does he plan to do?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 25, 2010
    ISBN9780007159437
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    Put on by Cunning
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    Ruth Rendell

    Ruth Rendell (1930–2015) won three Edgar Awards, the highest accolade from Mystery Writers of America, as well as four Gold Daggers and a Diamond Dagger for outstanding contribution to the genre from England’s prestigious Crime Writ­ers’ Association. Her remarkable career spanned a half century, with more than sixty books published. A member of the House of Lords, she was one of the great literary figures of our time.

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