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Lädt ... Corridors of Death (1982)von Ruth Dudley Edwards
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. When Sir Nicholas Clark is murdered, there is no shortage of suspects. All his colleagues and underlings in the civil service hated him and all of them had the opportunity to kill him. Scotland Yard's task is to sift through all these suspects to figure out whodunit. ( ) This is a "who-dun-it?" in the classic mode. A civil servant is killed and the investigation gets under way with considerable input from a junior public servant who explains the workings of the public service to the investigating officer. It's quite clever and funny at this point--something like the "Yes, Minister" and Yes, Prime Minister" television series. The rest of the book is more conventional, as they try to work out who , amongst all his collegues, actually didn't want to kill him. A senior British senior servant is found murdered right after an important meeting, and the only suspects are important bureaucrats. Detective Milton of Scotland Yard is on the case, and he continually needs to prove himself because everyone seems to want the case wrapped up and hushed up. Fortunately he has an 'ace in the hole', Robert Amiss, a secretary who is willing to secretly give him information on all these important people. I was feeling 'meh' about this book most of the way through. I bumped up my rating to 3 stars by the end because the dead man turned out to be very 3-dimensional. At first I thought he was a typical nasty man whom everyone wanted to die - but as the book unfolds he became much more interesting. (It's an odd feeling building a relationship with a corpse!) And might I add that Amiss, the amateur detective, is a more enjoyable character than the detective. Bottom line: Thought it was going to be boring, but turned out a bit better than I expected. And I learned a little about British civil service at this time period. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Battered to death with a piece of abstract sculpture titled 'Reconciliation, ' Whitehall departmental head Sir Nicholas Clark is claimed by his colleagues to have been a fine and respected public servant cut off in his prime. Bewildered by the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Whitehall, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Jim Milton recognizes a potential ally in Clark's young Private Secretary, Robert Amiss. Milton soon learns from Amiss how Whitehall works: that it can be Machiavellian and potentially homicidal, that Sir Nicholas was obnoxious and widely loathed, that he had spent the weeks before his murder upsetting and antagonizing family and associates, and that his last morning on earth had been spent gleefully observing the success of his plan to embarrass his minister and his department publicly. And they still need to discover who wielded the blunt instrument. This is the first of Ruth Dudley Edwards' witty, iconoclastic but warm-hearted satires about the British Establishment. Dr. Ruth Dudley Edwards was born and brought up in Dublin, Ireland. An historian and prize-winning biographer, she uses her knowledge of the British establishment in her satirical crime novels. She has three times been short-listed for awards from the Crime Writers' Association. www.ruthdudleyedwards.com Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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