Murdering Americans — UK launch party 

On Tuesday 18 September at Clutha House, 10 Storey’s Gate, London SW1P 3AY

The Author

With the Marquis of Salisbury

With Henry Kelly

Photos by Mike Stotter, Editor of SHOTS, the magazine for crime & mystery (www.shotsmag.co.uk)

From London Evening Standard 19 September 2007

‘A taste of some of the flak David Cameron can expect from Right-wingers when he convenes the party conference at Blackpool next month. The Marquess of Salisbury gave a warm tribute to his friend, Ruth Dudley Edwards, at the launch of her latest whodunit novel, Murdering Americans, at the Policy Exchange last night but was less effusive about the Tory leaders.  Robert Cranborne, a patrician Tory, dismissed the current “liberal regime” of David Cameron, and praised Lady Troutbeck, the heroine of the novel, for being a “peer of high Tory principles and pronounced Sapphic tendencies”.  Cranborne did once famously compare himself to “an ill-trained spaniel”.’