Ruth Dudley Edwards

Murdering Americans

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Produktbeschreibung

Already a member of the House of Lords and Mistress of St. Martha's College in Cambridge, Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck 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, she sets off from England blissfully unaware that academia in the USA is dominated by knee-jerk liberalism, contempt for Western civilization, and the institutionalization of a form of insane political correctness. Can she defeat the thought-police who run Freeman State University? And will she manage to persuade Robert Amiss to abandon his honey-moon and fly to her side? Dr. Ruth Dudley Edwards has been a freelance writer, journalist and broadcaster. Her novels target 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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sourcebooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781590584149
• ISBN-10: 1590584147
• Artikelnr.: 21343439

Autorenporträt

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.