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Ruth Dudley Edwards
Books in Order: 14 titles
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Killing the Emperors
Why have luminaries of the world of conceptual art been kidnapped? And why has Baroness (Jack) Troutbeck--who has publicly described them all as knaves or fools--gone missing too? As victims surface publicly and horrifically dead, in what become '...
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Murdering Americans
Academia (n.): a profession filled with bad food, knee-jerk liberalism, and murder... Being a member of the House of Lords and Mistress of St Martha's College in Cambridge might seem enough to keep anyone busy, but Baroness (Jack) Troutbec...
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Carnage on the Committee
"The literary cognoscenti ('the superciliati,' she calls them) hold no terror for this ribald satirist." -- New York TimesWhen the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss (the tok...
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Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King, and the Glory Days of Fleet Street
Opposites in most respects, Hugh Cudlipp and Cecil Harmsworth King were the "Barnum and Bailey" of Fleet Street. Together they created the world's biggest publishing empire, but their relationship foundered sensationally in 1968 when, as King tried t...
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The Anglo-Irish Murders
Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs Robert Amiss, her young friend and reluctant accomplice, int...
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Publish and Be Murdered
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 editor, Willie Lambie ...
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Murder in a Cathedral
"This blithe series puts itself on the side of the angels by merrily, and staunchly, subverting every tenet of political correctness." -- The IndependentFor many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays, so when N...
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Ten Lords A-Leaping
The House of Lords will never be the same again. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, Jack Troutbeck, assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss, plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she violently d...
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Matricide at St. Martha's
"The clever plot takes second place to the ebullience of the writing and spot-on inventiveness of the satire." -- The TimesSt. Martha's College, Cambridge, had been staggering along on a shoestring for decades. Then alumna Alice Toon leaves her old s...
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Clubbed to Death
Robert Amiss is persuaded by his friend Detective Sergeant Pooley of the CID to take a job as a waiter in ffeatherstonehaugh's (pronounced Fanshaw's), a gentlemen's club in St James', London. The club secretary has allegedly jumped to his death from ...
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The English School of Murder
The death of an instructor, a mugging, and another "accidental" death has Detective Constable Ellis Pooley sending Robert Amiss undercover to investigate Knightsbridge School of English and capture the killer before anymore "accidents" occur....
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The Saint Valentine's Day Murders
"The plotting and the mechanics of the solution are in the best traditions of the classic British mystery...Try not to miss this one." -- New York TimesLife in a dismal bureaucratic cul-de-sac is not what Robert Amiss expects when the British civil ...
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Corridors of Death
Battered to death with a piece of abstract sculpture titled "Reconciliation", Whitehall departmental head Sir Nicholas Clark is claimed by his colleagues to have been a fine and respected public servant cut off in his prime. Bewildered by the labyrin...
