The School of English Murder

Edwards, Ruth Dudley

ISBN 10: 0575051760 / ISBN 13: 9780575051768

Published by Gollancz, 1990,, 1990

About this Item

paperback, 221pp, signed by the author on half-title page, no further inscriptions, glued repairs with several pages re-attached, binding fragile, Fair condition. ISBN: 0575051760.

Seller Inventory # 924781

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The School of English Murder
• Publisher: Gollancz, 1990,
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575051760
• ISBN 13: 9780575051768
• Binding: Soft cover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

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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 TimesHe'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

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.