Murder Being Once Done (1972)

Murder Being Once Done is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1972. It is the seventh entry in her popular Inspector Wexford series.

Reception

Lenore Glen Offord of the San Francisco Examiner wrote: "Highly interesting cross-section of English middle class life provides the basis for the straight-detection item, with all the fine characterizations and surprises that one expects of Rendell." The Lewiston Evening Journal called it a "fine example of brilliant characterization, neat plotting realism and pace to command the fullest possible attention of the reader from the first paragraph to the final punctuation mark." Ruth Vastine of The Press of Atlantic City stated: "There are sections of the book which describe the countryside and other various locations and some of these are overdone. Nonetheless, the story is a very involving and successful who-done-it."