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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
1964

Originally published
  
1964

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Series
  
Pages
  
182 pp (Arrow edition)

Author
  
OCLC
  
16605281

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Publisher
  
John Long (UK)The Crime Club (US)

Media type
  
Genres
  
Fiction, Crime Fiction, Suspense, Mystery

Followed by
  
Wolf to the Slaughter, A New Lease of Death

Similar
  
Ruth Rendell books, Crime Fiction books

From Doon with Death was the debut novel of British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1964. 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.

Contents

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.

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

From Doon with Death Wikipedia


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