Kissing the Gunner's Daughter

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter is a 1992 novel by the British mystery writer Ruth Rendell, featuring the recurring character Inspector Reg Wexford.[1] The title of the book refers to historical corporal punishment in the Royal Navy where a sailor was positioned over a cannon to receive a flogging.[1]

Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
First edition (UK)
AuthorRuth Rendell
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Wexford # 15
GenreCrime, Mystery novel
PublisherHutchinson (UK)
Mysterious Press (US)
Publication date
January 1992
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages345 pp
ISBN0-09-175218-3
OCLC26302136
Preceded byThe Veiled One 
Followed bySimisola 

Plot

Four members of a well-to-do family in Kingsmarkham are shot during dinner, and only Daisy survives with minor injuries. Daisy is the teenage granddaughter of Davina Flory, a popular writer. Wexford wishes to protect her in a fatherly way, as he is with his own daughter Sheila, whose new boyfriend Augustine Casey is a post-post-modernist novelist who has already published a novel devoid of any characters.[1] Daisy had never met her father. Wexford finds that Daisy's father is a former football player nicknamed "Gunner" because he played for Arsenal Football Club.[1]

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly praised the novel's analysis of class politics in Britain, but found the plot and its denouement both obvious and far-fetched.[2]

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References
  1. Herbert Mitgang (June 12, 1992). "Books of The Times; 2 Serious Mysteries With the Nerve to Be Fun". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  2. Rubins, Josh (May 22, 1992). "Book Review—Kissing the Gunner's Daughter". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 15 April 2012.


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