Carnage on the Committee - Couverture souple

Edwards, Ruth Dudley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1464201188 ISBN 13 : 9781464201189

Editeur : Poisoned Pen Press, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Edwards Ruth Dudley

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

When the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper - Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baroness ''Jack'' Troutbeck to step into the chair. Speculation that a killer may be targeting the judges worries the baroness not in the slightest - it's the prospect of immersing herself in modern literature that fills her with dread. But noblesse must oblige, even when it means joining the ranks of the superciliati sitting in judgement of the literati. With the baroness at the helm, the judges resume the task of whittling away at the short - list. But the killer, too, has resumed work and is whittling away at the judges one by one . In deplorable taste and wickedly funny, this, the tenth in the Robert Amiss series, will consolidate the author's reputation for scurrilous humor.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin, Ireland. Since she graduated she has lived in England, where she has been a teacher, a Cambridge postgraduate student, a marketing executive, a civil servant and, finally, a freelance writer, journalist and broadcaster.An historian and prize-winning biographer, her recent non-fiction includes the authorized history of The Economist, a portrait of the British Foreign Office and a book about the newspaper world of the mid-twentieth century. She uses her knowledge of the British establishment in her satirical crime novels: targets so far include the civil service, gentlemen's clubs, Cambridge colleges, the House of Lords, the Church of England, publishing, literary prizes and - always - political correctness. She has three times been short-listed for awards from the Crime Writers' Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Poisoned Pen Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1464201188
• ISBN 13: 9781464201189
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible