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CARNAGE ON THE COMMITTEE

Carnage on the Committee cover
Publishers' blurb

When the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss wastes no time in summoning Baroness 'Jack' Troutbeck to step into the breach.

In deplorable taste and wickedly funny, this, the tenth in the Robert Amiss series, will consolidate the author's reputation for scurrilous humour.

Published in the US by Poisoned Pen Press

Also published as a BBC Audio Book

Reviews:

Mike Ripley — Birmingham Post

Simon Brett — Daily Mail

Brendan Kennelly — Irish Times

'Sprightly, saucy and ingenious.'  Sunday Times

'Dudley Edwards is an equal opportunities satirist. She's rude to every persuasion.'  Daily Telegraph

'[Ruth Dudley Edwards] writes ebullient novels filled with entertaining eccentrics.'  The Times

'Marvellously entertaining and iconoclastic series of satires on the British establishment. Ruth Dudley Edwards is a crime writer whom we should treasure - sharp, intelligent and gloriously politically incorrect.'  Mail on Sunday

'Carnage on the Committee is satire at its best... Witty, irrelevant, and down right funny... With her robust language, on the spot assessment of the current situation, this is one of the funniest books that I have read in a long time.' Mystery Women

"Like other venerable British institutions Ruth Dudley Edwards has gutted in previous mysteries, the literary cognoscenti ("the super-ciliati," she calls them) hold no terror for this ribald satirist..."
The New York Times
PUBLISHED AUTUMN 2008:

 
Poisoned Pen Press US have recently reissued Ten Lords A-Leaping and The Anglo-Irish Murders.

All Ruth's fiction is now back in print.


Ruth at Poisoned Pen Bookshop in Arizona, run by her editor, Barbara Peters, who is married to her publisher at Poisoned Pen, Rob Rosenwald.
‘This blithe series puts itself on the side of the angels by merrily, and staunchly, subverting every tenet of political correctness.’
Patricia Craig in The Independent
All novels, except Murdering Americans, are available in BBC Audio Books, read by the brilliant Bill Wallis.
 
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