The English School of Murder

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

“Amiss is bumblingly appealing and howlingly funny.” -- The Chicago Sun Times

After being a Cambridge postgraduate, a teacher, a marketing executive and a civil servant, Ruth Dudley Edwards became a full-time writer. A journalist, broadcaster, historian and prize-winning biographer who lives in London, her recent non-fiction includes books about The Economist, the Foreign Office, the Orange Order and Fleet Street. The first of her ten satirical mysteries, Corridors of Death, was short-listed for the CWA John Creasey Memorial Dagger; two others were nominated for the CWA Last Laugh Award. Her two short stories appeared respectively in The Economist and the Oxford Book of Detective Stories. Targets of her satirical crime novels about the British establishment so far include the civil service, gentlemen's clubs, academia, the House of Lords, the Church of England, publishing, the literati and, above all, political correctness. Visit her website at www.ruthdudleyedwards.com