The English School of Murder

Edwards, Ruth Dudley

ISBN 10: 0312043112 / ISBN 13: 9780312043117

Published by Stated first U.S. edition, published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990., 1990

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Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly bumped along top edges and bottom front edge. 221 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The English School of Murder
• Publisher: Stated first U.S. edition, published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1990.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312043112
• ISBN 13: 9780312043117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

On behalf of his policeman friend, Robert Amiss agrees to accept a position as a teacher at a school for foreigners learning English, in order to investigate the mysterious death of an instructor

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. www.ruthdudleyedwards.com