Murdering Americans: A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery: 11 - Softcover

Edwards, Ruth Dudley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590584821 ISBN 13: 9781590584828

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007

Synopsis

"...No one brings down the temple with more outrageous wit and style than Ruth Dudley Edwards." -The New York Times "The fun...starts on the very first page and doesn't stop until the very last." -Booklist starred review "A scathing...attack on over-the-top PC." -Kirkus Reviews Baroness (Jack) Troutbeck likes new challenges, so she leaps at an invitation to become a Distinguished Visiting Professor on an American campus. With her head full of romantic fantasies inspired by 1950s Hollywood, and accompanied by Horace, her loquacious and disconcerting parrot, this intellectually-rigorous right-winger is blissfully unaware that U.S. academia is dominated by knee-jerk liberalism, contempt for Western civilization, and the institutionalization of a form of insane political correctness. Can Jack, the insensitive and tactless human battering-ram, defeat the thought-police who run Freeman State University like a gulag? Does she believe the late Provost was murdered? And will she manage to persuade Robert Amiss-who describes himself bitterly as Watson to her Holmes and Goodwin to her Nero Wolfe-to abandon his honeymoon and fly to her side? Historian and prize-winning biographer Ruth Dudley Edwards 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. www.ruthdudleyedwards.com

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Dudley Edwards is a 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590584821
• ISBN 13: 9781590584828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252