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The Anglo-Irish Murders (Collins crime)
Ruth Dudley Edwards
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Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has minor wear to edges but remains very good
The fifth in Ruth Dudley Edwards's wickedly funny series taking an irreverent look at the British Establishment: 'A Fragonard to the Hieronymus Bosch of the grittier writers' The Times Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs Robert Amiss, her young friend and reluctant accomplice, into becoming conference organizer. Despite their diverting encounters as they career through Ireland en route to Moycoole Castle in County Mayo, Amiss is in near-despair as the arrangements crumble around his ears. The interested parties -- ... Read more
The fifth in Ruth Dudley Edwards's wickedly funny series taking an irreverent look at the British Establishment: 'A Fragonard to the Hieronymus Bosch of the grittier writers' The Times Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs Robert Amiss, her young friend and reluctant accomplice, into becoming conference organizer. Despite their diverting encounters as they career through Ireland en route to Moycoole Castle in County Mayo, Amiss is in near-despair as the arrangements crumble around his ears. The interested parties -- ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Collins Crime
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780002326728
SKU
KOC0024660
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ruth Dudley Edwards
Ruth Dudley Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin. Since she graduated she has lived in England, where she has been a teacher, a Cambridge postgraduate student, a marketing executive, a civil servant and finally, a freelance writer, journalist and broadcaster. A prize-winning historian and biographer, her most recent non-fiction includes the authorized history of The Economist, a portrait ... Read more
Reviews for The Anglo-Irish Murders (Collins crime)
Acclaim for Ruth Dudley Edwards: 'Sprightly, saucy and ingenious' Sunday Times 'I fear it will make you laugh out loud on public transport' London Evening Standard 'This blithe series puts itself on the side of the angels by merrily, and staunchly, subverting every tenet of political correctness' Independent