Murder in a Cathedral: A Robert Amiss/Baroness Jack Troutbeck Mystery: 7 (Robert Amiss/Baroness Jack Troutbeck Mysteries) - Softcover

Edwards, Ruth Dudley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590581342 ISBN 13: 9781590581346

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2013

Synopsis

Praise for Murder in a Cathedral... "Subversively funny." -Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "No one is writing wittier mystery fiction in Britain today than Ruth Dudley Edwards." -Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News For many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays. So when Norman Cooper, an austere, intolerant, happy-clappy evangelist, is appointed dean, there is shock, outrage and fear. David Elworthy, the gentle and politically innocent new bishop, is distraught at the prospect of warfare between the factions. Desperate for help, Elworthy cries on the shoulder of his old friend, the Baroness ("Jack") Troutbeck, who forces her unofficial troubleshooter, Robert Amiss, to move into the bishop's palace. Amiss, Troutbeck, and the cat Plutarch address themselves to the bishop's problems, which very soon swell to include a clerical corpse in the cathedral. Is it suicide? Or is it murder? And who is likely to be next? Ruth Dudley Edwards is an historian and journalist as well as a mystery writer. The targets of her satirical crime novels include the gentlemen's clubs, Cambridge University, the House of Lords, journalism and literary prizes. The British Crime Writers' Association short-listed Corridors of Death for the John Creasy Award for best first novel, and Clubbed to Death and Ten Lords A-Leaping for their Last Laugh Award. She won the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award for Murdering Americans in 2008 and in 2010 the CWA Non-fiction Gold Dagger for Aftermath: The Omagh Bombings and the Families' Pursuit of Justice. Her twelfth mystery, Killing the Emperors, is a black comedy about conceptual art. www.ruthdudleyedwards.com

About this title

Review:

This blithe series puts itself on the side of the angels by merrily, and staunchly, subverting every tenet of political correctness. -- Patricia Craig, The Independent

About the Author:

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. www.ruthdudleyedwards.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1590581342
• ISBN 13: 9781590581346
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240