Carnage on the Committee
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Amiss asks a baroness to fill the gap when a member of the Literary Prize committee dies in suspicious circumstances
Ruth Dudley Edwards se convirtió en escritora a tiempo completo tras una diversa carrera que incluyó estudios de posgrado, docencia, marketing y servicio civil. Periodista, locutora, historiadora y biógrafa galardonada con sede en Londres, es conocida por sus misterios satíricos. Sus obras exploran hábilmente temas sociales y políticos con ingenio e ironía. Edwards combina magistralmente el suspense con el comentario social, creando narrativas cautivadoras y que invitan a la reflexión.




Amiss asks a baroness to fill the gap when a member of the Literary Prize committee dies in suspicious circumstances
In St. Martha's College, Cambridge, rival factions battle over a bequest. One lot wants it spent on fellowships, another on redecoration, a third on a politically-correct ethnics study center. When people start dying, the college calls in Scotland Yard's Jim Milton
For many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays, so when Norman Cooper, an austere, intolerant, happy-clappy evangelist, is appointed dean, there is shock, outrage and fear. David Elworthy, the gentle and politically innocent new bishop, is distraught at the prospect of warfare between the factions; contentious issues include the camp lady chapel and the gay memorial under construction in the deanery garden. Desperate for help, Elworthy cries on the shoulder of his old friend, the redoubtable Baroness Troutbeck, who forces her unofficial troubleshooter, Robert Amiss, to move into the bishop's palace. Amiss, Troutbeck and the cat Plutarch address themselves in their various ways to the bishop's problems, which very soon include a clerical corpse in the cathedral. Is it suicide? Or is it murder? And who is likely to be next?