Carnage On The Committee

by Edwards, Ruth Dudley

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The British literary establishment is the most prominent victim in this 10th satiric mystery in the Robert Amiss series. When th

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The British literary establishment is the most prominent victim in this 10th satiric mystery in the Robert Amiss series. When the chairperson of an important literary prize committee is killed, panel member Robert Amiss asks his friend, Baroness Jack Troutbeck, to take over as head. Her audacious notion that perhaps the quality of the book, not the author's degree of political correctness, should determine the winner sets the committee into an uproar. Meanwhile, and perhaps less importantly, the murderer continues to stalk the committee members, eliminating them one by one....

Author:: Edwards, Ruth Dudley

ISBN:: 9781590581551
Format:: Paperback
Pages:: 395
Publish Date:: 11/01/2004
Publisher:: Poisoned Pen Pr
Language:: English

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In her 10th comic Robert Amiss mystery, Dudley Edwards (The Anglo-Irish Murders) mercilessly skewers the book publishing world. The poisoning death of a peer, who served as the chairperson for the eccentric selection committee for a new British literary prize to outshine the Booker, causes a crisis. Panel member Amiss, an aspiring mystery novelist, recruits his friend, Baroness Jack Troutbeck, to fill the breach. The baroness, a politically incorrect bisexual who might remind some readers of John Dickson Carr's legendary Sir Henry Merrivale, quickly moves to impose her view that literature should be judged on its literary merits, steamrollering over her outraged colleagues who award points to entries based on the author's ethnic, economic and political backgrounds. As one judge after another meets an untimely end, the police place the remaining panel members under guard. Edwards is unabashedly cynical about publishing and the methods authors use to get ahead. The byplay between the baroness and her rivals is often amusing, though less acidly memorable than Robert Barnard's dialogue in works like Death of an Old Goat, which satirized academic politics. Those interested in solving the puzzle should be forewarned that there's no rational basis for anyone to deduce the identity of the killer, who ultimately mails a confession to the police. Agent, Jane Chelius. (Nov. 30) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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