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Robert Amiss #2
Poisoned Pen Press
October 2007
On Sale: October 15, 2007
Featuring: Baroness Troutbeck; Robert Amiss
248 pages
ISBN: 159058435X
EAN: 9781590584354
Kindle: B003YDXML4
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Mystery
Life in a dismal bureaucratic cul-de-sac is not what the
irreverent, high-flying Robert Amiss expects when the
British civil service lends him for a year to the British
Conservation Corporation. In theory, he is to gain
invaluable experience of thrusting capitalism: in practice,
he is condemned to a non-job in a backwater managing
disgruntled and demoralized time-servers who deeply resent
this interloper. Morale in this all-male environment is not
improved by the arrival of Melissa, a radical feminist
lesbian separatist. It is only Amiss’s sense of humour and
the joys of visiting Rachel, his new love, in Paris, that
keep him sane. The malice, envy and anger that burgeons among the filing
cabinets is first expressed in pettiness and then in
unpleasant practical jokes. These begin to escalate
worryingly and finally culminate in callous murder by means
of boxes of poisoned chocolates sent to the bureaucrats’
wives. Did they come from Henry Crump, the dirty old man? Or
Tony Farson, the miser? Or Graham Illingworth, the
depressed home improver? Or one of the other sad,
disappointed men? Or even from Melissa? With the help of Ellis Pooley, the young detective obsessed
with fictional sleuths who makes his debut here, Amiss and
his friend Superintendent Milton try to assess motives in an
office where marital discord and broken dreams might drive
anyone to murder.
Robert Amiss
Comments
2 comments posted.
Re: The Saint Valentine's Day Murders
this sounds like my kind of read
(Kathy Weber 8:37pm February 8, 2012)
Sounds like fun. Love British wit.
(Betty Gelean 4:16pm February 16, 2012)
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