The English School of Murder - Edwards, Ruth Dudley
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Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? It's murder.... "Adroit, inspiring, and written with a rare lightness of touch," --The London Times Literary Supplement "Believable plotting, a memorable cast of characters, and three--count 'em--three beguiling sleuths in a warm, gently raunchy, crisp, and literate caper." --Kirkus Reviews "Amiss is bumblingly appealing and howlingly funny." --The Chicago Sun Times He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job--and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School. Robert's cover will be to teach English as a…mehr

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Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? It's murder.... "Adroit, inspiring, and written with a rare lightness of touch," --The London Times Literary Supplement "Believable plotting, a memorable cast of characters, and three--count 'em--three beguiling sleuths in a warm, gently raunchy, crisp, and literate caper." --Kirkus Reviews "Amiss is bumblingly appealing and howlingly funny." --The Chicago Sun Times He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job--and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School. Robert's cover will be to teach English as a foreign language. His mission soon becomes, well, murder.... "Quirky, highly intelligent, and thoroughly entertaining...." --The Washington Post Book World
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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.