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MURDERING AMERICANS
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| By: |
Ruth Dudley Edwards |
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Hardback |
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£15.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1590584139 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781590584132 |
| Publisher: |
POISONED PEN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2007 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
When the proper Baroness Troutbeck accepts a visiting professor position at an American university, she is instantly at odds with the knee-jerk liberals that make up the faculty. But does she believe the late Provost was murdered, and if so, what should she do about it? |
| Synopsis: |
""Academia (n.): a profession filled with bad food, knee-jerk liberalism, and murder...Being a member of the House of Lords and Mistress of St Marthas College in Cambridge might seem enough to keep anyone busy, but Baroness (Jack) Troutbeck likes new challenges. When a combination of weddings, work, and spookery deprives her of five of her closest allies, she leaps at an invitation to become a Distinguished Visiting Professor on an American campus.With her head full of romantic fantasies inspired by 1950s Hollywood, and accompanied by Horace, her loquacious and disconcerting parrot, this intellectually-rigorous right-winger sets off from England blissfully unaware that academia in the United States is dominated by knee-jerk liberalism, contempt for Western civilization, and the institutionalisation of a form of insane political-correctness.Will the bonne viveuse Baroness Troutbeck be able to cope with the culinary and vinous desert that is New Paddington, Indiana? Can this insensitive and tactless human battering-ram defeat the thought-police who run Freeman State University like a gulag? Does she believe the late Provost was murdered? If so, what should she do about it? And will she manage to persuade Robert Amisswho describes himself bitterly as Watson to her Holmes and Goodwin to her Nero Wolfeto abandon his honeymoon and fly to her side? |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Poisoned Pen Press |
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Non-returnable |
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