The Anglo-Irish Murders - Hardcover

Dudley Edwards, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002326728 ISBN 13: 9780002326728

Publisher: Collins Crime, 2000

Synopsis

The fifth in Ruth Dudley Edwards’s wickedly funny series taking an irreverent look at the British Establishment: ‘A Fragonard to the Hieronymus Bosch of the grittier writers’ The Times

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, into becoming conference organizer.

Despite their diverting encounters as they career through Ireland en route to Moycoole Castle in County Mayo, Amiss is in near-despair as the arrangements crumble around his ears. The interested parties – particularly nationalists and unionists from Northern Ireland and civil servants from Dublin and London – seem intent on living up to their worst stereotypes. A truculent Orangeman, intransigent republicans, imitative loyalists, appeasing English and hypocritical Irish are among the nightmarish participants whose arrival Amiss views with dread. And driving rain and security problems make everything worse.

It is a conference to remember in more ways than one. When a delegate plummets off the battlements, no one, not even the authorities, can decide whether it was by accident or design. The next death poses the same problem and causes warring factions to accuse each other of murder even as the politicians are busily trying to brush everything under the carpet in the name of peace.

The latest in Ruth Dudley Edwards’s wickedly funny series of crime novels taking an irreverent look at the Establishment.

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Dudley Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin. 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. A prize-winning historian and biographer, her most recent non-fiction includes the authorized history of The Economist, a portrait of the British Foreign Office, written with its co-operation and The Faithful Tribe: an intimate portrait of the Loyal Institutions. The Anglo-Irish Murders is her ninth satirical crime novel: three have been short-listed for awards from the Crime Writers’ Association.

From the Back Cover

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, into becoming conference organizer.

Despite their diverting encounters as they career through Ireland en route to Moycoole Castle in County Mayo, Amiss is in near-despair as the arrangements crumble around his ears. The interested parties – particularly nationalists and unionists from Northern Ireland and civil servants from Dublin and London – seem intent on living up to their worst stereotypes. A truculent Orangeman, intransigent republicans, imitative loyalists, appeasing English and hypocritical Irish are among the nightmarish participants whose arrival Amiss views with dread. And driving rain and security problems make everything worse.

It is a conference to remember in more ways than one. When a delegate plummets off the battlements, no one, not even the authorities, can decide whether it was by accident or design. The next death poses the same problem and causes warring factions to accuse each other of murder even as the politicians are busily trying to brush everything under the carpet in the name of peace.

The latest in Ruth Dudley Edwards's wickedly funny series of crime novels taking an irreverent look at the Establishment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins Crime
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002326728
• ISBN 13: 9780002326728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240