New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Poisoned Pen Press 08 Oct-Dec

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Poisoned Pen Press OCT-DEC 08

Ruth Dudley Edwards School of English Murder Pbk published November 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł7.95 ISBN: 1890208787

Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? It's murder....

Ruth Dudley Edwards was born in Dublin, Ireland and currently resides in Ealing, London. She is an award winning biographer and historian and has worked as a Marketing Executive and the Head of the Department of Industry with the British Home Civil Service. She has been a Freelance writer since 1979 and the Company Historian of The Economist since 1982 and has written its authorized history.
(Sep 2001)

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Ruth Dudley Edwards Clubbed to Death Pbk published October 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł14.99 ISBN: 1590584368

Robert Amiss, hero of The English School of Murder, is persuaded by his friend Detective Sergeant Pooley of the CID to take a job as a waiter in ffeatherstonehaugh's (pronounced Fanshaw's), a gentlemen's club in St James's. The club secretary has allegedly jumped to his death from the gallery of this imposing building: against most of the evidence, Pooley believes he was murdered.
Amiss finds himself in a bizarre caricature of a club, run by and for debauched geriatrics, with skeletons rattling in every cupboard. Why are there so few members? How are they financed? Will Amiss keep his job despite the enmity of the ferocious, snuff-covered Colonel Fagg? More importantly, will he solve the crime before someone else dies?

Historian and prize-winning biographer Ruth Dudley Edwards gleefully takes on the British establishment in her satirical crime novels. Her targets include the civil service, gentlement's clubs, Cambridge colleges, the House of Lords, the Church of England, publishing, literary prizes and – always – political correctness.

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Michael Pearce Mamur Zapt and the Men Behind Pbk published October 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł8.50 ISBN: 1590580524

While riding home to lunch on his donkey, Fairclough of Customs is rudely unseated by shots fired from behind. The incident is but the first of a series of attacks seemingly aimed at public officials. Even Captain Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's Secret Police, barely escapes. Is a sinister campaign to undermine foreign rule under way? And who are “the men behind”? True, the Nationalist movement is rising after thirty years of the British Protectorate, and the new Liberal Government in London is more sympathetic than the heavy-handed Conservatives and Cromer to local rule. But can Owen discount more mundane agendas?
Under orders to act quickly, Owen delves into maneuverings at the Khedive's court and the goals of a commercial delegation. His investigations not only carry him in to the city's student quarter but out into the countryside and onto a rural estate. Along the way he juggles a Pasha whose political star is fading, a bomb-wielding Berber, and the knife-happy gypsy Soraya who seriously annoys Owen's main squeeze, the fiery and lovely Zeinab, herself the daughter of a pasha. Which of these explosive mixes is most likely to prove injurious to the Mamur Zapt as well as to the government he serves?....
The Men Behind is the fourth in a delightful tongue-in-cheek series after The Mamur Zapt the The Return of the Carpet, The Night of the Dog, and The Donkey-vous.

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Michael Pearce Camel of Destruction Pbk published November 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł0.00 ISBN: 1590580419

The suicide of a clerk in the Ministry of Agriculture hardly seemed to warrant the attention of the head of Cairo's political CID in Edwardian Egypt, but Captain Owen soon found his investigation more concerned with controversial property developments than with the effects of too much prussic acid.
(The seventh book in the Mamur Zapt series)
Reprint edition (Jul 2003)

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Michael Pearce Mingrelian Conspiracy Pbk published November 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press at Ł0.00 ISBN: 1590581776

Poisoned Pen Pr (31 Jul 2003)
The ninth book in the Mamur Zapt series
In the Cairo of 1908, the city lives?and dies?by its café culture. But for all restaurant businesses, then and now, the protection rackets pose a problem. And the city?s cafés are experiencing a sudden upsurge in threats from various gangs. But who are they? More importantly, who?s behind them? Is the money being channeled to some big crook, or is its use political, say for the purchase of guns? With some sixty nationalities, one hundred and twelve ethnic groups, and over two hundred religious sects, not to mention the Nationalists on the rise, policing the capital is no easy matter. When Mustapha, one café proprietor, is attacked by men with clubs, his legs broken for non- compliance, everyone is worried. The attacks may be escalating towards the international community. The Russian Chargé makes a complaint. Are the Mingrelians, a very small Christian group from the Caucasus, formenting a real conspiracy aimed at the visit of a Russian Grand Duke? This royalty is coming to replicate the visit his uncle paid to Egypt at the opening of the Suez Canal. Heading off any such incident is the task of Gareth Owen, Head of the Secret Police. But will the Mamur Zapt find answers to so many arcane questions in time?...

Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the political and other tensions he draws on for his books. He returned there later to teach and retains a human rights interest in the area. In between whiles his career has followed the standard academic rake’s progress from teaching to writing to administration. He finds international politics a pallid imitation of academic ones.

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