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Publish And Be Murdered by Ruth Dudley Edwards

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The Anglo-Irish Murders, September 2008
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Ten Lords A-Leaping, August 2008
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Clubbed To Death, May 2008
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Murdering Americans, December 2007
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The Saint Valentine's Day Murders, October 2007
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Corridors Of Death, May 2007
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Carnage On The Committee, November 2004
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Murder In A Cathedral, November 2004
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Matricide At St. Martha's, May 2002
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The English School Of Murder, September 2001
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Publish And Be Murdered, January 1999
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PUBLISH AND BE MURDERED
By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

Robert Amiss #8
Poisoned Pen Press
January 1999
On Sale: January 1, 1999
Featuring: Baroness Troutbeck; Robert Amiss
217 pages
ISBN: 1890208132
EAN: 9781890208134
Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery

British satirist Edwards continues to skewer the Establishment with the misadventures of civil servant Robert Amiss and the keen deductions of his sleuthing partner, the irrepressible, irreverent Baroness "Jack" Troutbeck. Edwards, who's filleted the Foreign Office, clobbered a Cambridge college, jeered at gentlemen in their clubs, and defrocked the clergy in past books, now pulverizes the world of magazine publishing where to uphold traditions runs fatal risks.

Fictionalizing some of her own experiences as a journalist, Edwards creates the revered political rag The Wrangler, then sends in Amiss to sort out a hemorraghing cash flow, the succession plans of its most noble patron, a takeover bid from a strong-minded Australian woman (who has her eye on Jack), antiquated procedures that will have you rolling on the floor, preservation of a beautiful and historic London town house as company headquarters, and the inevitable little murder....

Amiss, long mired in inertia, is encouraged to break out of the civil service mentality, sort out his own emotional life, and Get On With It.

Truly a lovely, very funny, and provocative book that asks how we can balance what's worth keeping from our past with where we need to go to survive the future?