Carnage on the Committee
- 246 stránok
- 9 hodin čítania
Amiss asks a baroness to fill the gap when a member of the Literary Prize committee dies in suspicious circumstances
Ruth Dudley Edwards Poradie kníh
Ruth Dudley Edwards sa po postgraduálnom štúdiu v Cambridge a kariérach v oblasti učiteľstva, marketingu a štátnej správy stala spisovateľkou na plný úväzok. Táto londýnska autorka, známa ako novinárka, historička a ocenená biografiostka, sa vo svojej tvorbe zameriava na satirické detektívne romány. Jej diela často skúmajú spoločenské a politické otázky s duchom a iróniou. Jej schopnosť kombinovať napätie so spoločenským komentárom robí jej príbehy pútavými a podnetnými.
- 2004
- 2002
In St. Martha's College, Cambridge, rival factions battle over a bequest. One lot wants it spent on fellowships, another on redecoration, a third on a politically-correct ethnics study center. When people start dying, the college calls in Scotland Yard's Jim Milton
- 1997
Murder in a Cathedral
- 221 stránok
- 8 hodin čítania
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; contentious issues include the camp lady chapel and the gay memorial under construction in the deanery garden. Desperate for help, Elworthy cries on the shoulder of his old friend, the redoubtable Baroness Troutbeck, who forces her unofficial troubleshooter, Robert Amiss, to move into the bishop's palace. Amiss, Troutbeck and the cat Plutarch address themselves in their various ways to the bishop's problems, which very soon include a clerical corpse in the cathedral. Is it suicide? Or is it murder? And who is likely to be next?
