Ruth Dudley Edwards, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (246p) ISBN 978-1-59058-133-9
In her 10th comic Robert Amiss mystery, Dudley Edwards (The Anglo-Irish Murders
) mercilessly skewers the book publishing world. The poisoning death of a peer, who served as the chairperson for the eccentric selection committee for a new British...
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Ruth Dudley Edwards, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (236p) ISBN 978-1-59058-413-2
In Dudley Edwards's provocative, humorous 11th Robert Amiss mystery (after 2004's Carnage on the Committee
), the outrageous Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck—Mistress of St. Martha's College, Cambridge, and member of the House of...
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Ruth Dudley Edwards, Author Poisoned Pen Press $12.95 (217p) ISBN 978-1-890208-13-4
In his seventh outing, Robert Amiss, lapsed civil servant, is approached by Lord Papworth, owner of the Wrangler, to step in as business manager for the august journal and do something about its steady drain on his lordship's finances. The magazine's
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Ruth Dudley Edwards, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-312-08163-8
This low-key whodunit set in a London club shows members dropping out of the old-boy network in decidedly unusual ways. Ruled by the memory of lascivious poet, bon vivant and womanizer John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, whose verse appears throughout...
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Ruth Dudley Edwards, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (222p) ISBN 978-0-312-13122-7
This sixth outing for former civil servant and amateur sleuth Robert Amiss finds him installed in a one-year fellowship at threadbare St. Martha's Women's College, Cambridge, thanks to rough, tough Ida ``Jack'' Troutbeck, the college bursar and an...
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Ruth Dudley Edwards, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14430-2
The sixth Robert Amiss mystery is a wonderful romp set largely among the Lords of Parliament--either in their chambers or on their estates. The redoubtable Ida ""Jack"" Troutbeck, Mistress of St. Mary's College, Cambridge (seen in Matricide at St....
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Ruth Dudley Edwards, Author Thomas Dunne Books $20.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-15597-1
The satire in Edwards's latest Robert Amiss tale (after Ten Lords A Leapin') is overshadowed by the abrasive, self-centered Lady Troutbeck (aka Jack), who takes Robert to the installation of another friend as the new bishop of Westonbury Cathedral....
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Ruth Dudley Edwards. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (210p) ISBN 978-1-59058-638-9
British/Irish author Edwards is in top form as she skewers conceptual art ("pretentious, specious, nihilistic rubbish") and its practitioners in her 12th mystery (after 2007's Murdering Americans), this one featuring redoubtable Baroness Ida "Jack"...
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