Carnage on the Committee
- 246 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Amiss asks a baroness to fill the gap when a member of the Literary Prize committee dies in suspicious circumstances
Ruth Dudley Edwards Book order
Ruth Dudley Edwards transitioned to full-time writing after a diverse career including postgraduate studies, teaching, marketing, and civil service. A journalist, broadcaster, historian, and prize-winning biographer based in London, she is known for her satirical mysteries. Her works deftly explore societal and political themes with wit and irony. Edwards masterfully blends suspense with social commentary, creating engaging and thought-provoking narratives.
- 2004
- 2002
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
- 1997
Murder in a Cathedral
- 221 pages
- 8 hours of reading
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?
