Matricide at St. Martha's: A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery: 5 - Tapa blanda

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Edwards, Ruth Dudley

 
9781890208929: Matricide at St. Martha's: A Robert Amiss/Baronness Jack Troutback Mystery: 5
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ISBN 10: 1890208922 ISBN 13: 9781890208929
Editorial: Poisoned Pen Press, 2000

Sinopsis

St. Martha s College, Cambridge, had been staggering along on a shoestring for decades. Then alumna Alice Toon leaves her old school a huge fortune. The dons immediately fall to fighting over the spoils. The Virgins, led by Dame Maud Theodosia Buckbarrow, believe the bequests should be spent on scholarships. The Dykes­ fewer in number but better street fighters want to raise a center of Gender and Ethnic Studies. The Old Women (mostly men) dream of fine vintages to be laid down in a decent new wine cellar. Impasse!They ve reckoned without the Bursar, Jack Troutbeck. She elects to infiltrate this maelstrom of politics with her own agent, Robert Amiss, a former civil servant with a talent for sorting things out. No sooner does he arrive on the scene where the Virgins are getting the upper hand than Dame Maud is murdered, leading into what Mike Ripley of The Daily Telegraph described as: An acidly funny romp... Superbly bitchy on the none-too-fragrant groves of academe

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Acerca del autor

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.

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Editorial
Poisoned Pen Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1890208922
ISBN 13 
9781890208929
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
260
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no disponible
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