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Synopsis
Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? It's murder....''Adroit, inspiring, and written with a rare lightness of touch,'' - The London Times Literary Supplement ''Believable plotting, a memorable cast of characters, and three - count 'em - three beguiling sleuths in a warm, gently raunchy, crisp, and literate caper.'' - Kirkus Reviews ''Amiss is bumblingly appealing and howlingly funny.'' - The Chicago Sun Times. He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job - and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School. Robert's cover will be to teach English as a foreign language. His mission soon becomes, well, murder....''Quirky, highly intelligent, and thoroughly entertaining....'' - The Washington Post Book World
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About the Author
Dr Ruth Dudley Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin, Ireland. 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.An historian and prize-winning biographer, her recent non-fiction includes the authorized history of The Economist, a portrait of the British Foreign Office and a book about the newspaper world of the mid-twentieth century. She uses her knowledge of the British establishment in her satirical crime novels: targets so far include the civil service, gentlemen's clubs, Cambridge colleges, the House of Lords, the Church of England, publishing, literary prizes and - always - political correctness. She has three times been short-listed for awards from the Crime Writers' Association.
From AudioFile
Robert Amiss, the civil servant protagonist in several of Edwards's mysteries, has resigned his bureau-cratic post and hasn't a clue about what his next career more will be. Enter two CID friends with a request that he perform undercover work at the Knightsbridge School of English--a most unusual school. Several murders later, all plots and villains are revealed, and Amiss rejoins the ranks of the unemployed. Bill Wallis delivers a superb reading of this involved, implausible, yet entertaining mystery. Each character is so distinctly individual that it's like listening to a play performed by a full cast. And his pacing of conversation gives one the sense of eavesdropping. A virtuoso performance. R.E.K. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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