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The Saint Valentine's Day Murders by Ruth Dudley Edwards

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THE SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY MURDERS
By: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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If you love witty British crime fiction, sink your teeth into this Valentine gem
February 8, 2012

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.