From Doon with Death

From Doon With Death
First edition (UK)
Author	Ruth Rendell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Inspector Wexford #1
Genre	Crime / Mystery novel
Publisher	John Long (UK) The Crime Club (US)
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	182 pp (Arrow edition)
ISBN	0-09-920350-2 (Arrow edition)
OCLC	16605281
Followed by	A New Lease of Death

From Doon with Death was the debut novel of British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1964.^[1] The story was later made into a movie in 1988. The novel introduced her popular recurring character Inspector Wexford, who went on to feature in 24 of her novels.

Plot summary

The police knew all about Margaret Parsons. She was a religious, old-fashioned and respectable woman, as unexciting and dependable as her marriage. But it wasn't her life that interested Wexford - it was her violent, passionate death. Inspector Wexford becomes interested in her death after finding a number of letters from the mysterious Doon.^[2]

Criticism and context

Although the identity of the victim's lover "Doon" would not be much of a surprise to the 21st century reader, at the time of its release it was considered ground-breaking and daring, and this novel immediately garnered Rendell international critical attention.

References

↑ Barry Turner (15 August 2014). "Classic Crime - From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell". Daily Mail. DMG Media. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212171/plotsummary

Ruth Rendell

Inspector Wexford novels	From Doon with Death A New Lease of Death Wolf to the Slaughter The Best Man to Die A Guilty Thing Surprised No More Dying Then Murder Being Once Done Some Lie and Some Die Shake Hands Forever A Sleeping Life Put on By Cunning The Speaker of Mandarin An Unkindness of Ravens The Veiled One Kissing the Gunner's Daughter Simisola Road Rage Harm Done The Babes in the Wood End in Tears Not in the Flesh The Monster in the Box The Vault No Man's Nightingale

Stand-alone novels	To Fear a Painted Devil Vanity Dies Hard The Secret House of Death One Across, Two Down The Face of Trespass A Demon in My View A Judgement in Stone Make Death Love Me The Lake of Darkness Master of the Moor The Killing Doll The Tree of Hands Live Flesh Heartstones Talking to Strange Men The Bridesmaid Going Wrong The Crocodile Bird The Keys to the Street A Sight for Sore Eyes Adam and Eve and Pinch Me The Rottweiler Thirteen Steps Down The Thief The Water's Lovely Portobello Tigerlily's Orchids The St Zita Society The Girl Next Door Dark Corners

As Barbara Vine	A Dark-Adapted Eye A Fatal Inversion The House of Stairs Gallowglass King Solomon's Carpet Asta's Book No Night is Too Long The Brimstone Wedding The Chimney-sweeper's Boy Grasshopper The Blood Doctor The Minotaur The Birthday Present The Child's Child

Short story collections	The Fallen Curtain Means of Evil The Fever Tree The New Girlfriend The Copper Peacock Blood Lines Piranha to Scurfy

TV series	The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

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