Killing the Emperors - Edwards, Ruth Dudley
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Praise for Killing the Emperors... and style than Ruth Dudley Edwards." -New York Times "Not just an expert crime story, but a stinging satire of the madhouse of the modern art world...a delight. " -Andrew Klavan, author of The Homelanders series Lady (Jack) Troutbeck is missing. So is celebrity curator Sir Henry Fortune and his partner, art dealer Jason Pringle, along with a growing list of celebrities who populate the London art world. Then when news comes of a New York disappearance, the fears of the art establishment go transAtlantic. But why is Baroness Troutbeck a target? Can Jack's…mehr

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Praise for Killing the Emperors... and style than Ruth Dudley Edwards." -New York Times "Not just an expert crime story, but a stinging satire of the madhouse of the modern art world...a delight. " -Andrew Klavan, author of The Homelanders series Lady (Jack) Troutbeck is missing. So is celebrity curator Sir Henry Fortune and his partner, art dealer Jason Pringle, along with a growing list of celebrities who populate the London art world. Then when news comes of a New York disappearance, the fears of the art establishment go transAtlantic. But why is Baroness Troutbeck a target? Can Jack's friends rescue her before she becomes the next horrifying "hommage murder" satirizing notorious works of art? Ruth Dudley Edwards, an historian and prizewinning biographer, has written seriously and/or frivolously for almost every national newspaper in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom since 1993. She won the Last Laugh award for the funniest crime novel of the year in 2008 for Murdering Americans. www.ruthdudleyedwards.co.uk
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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.