Ruth Dudley Edwards

Killing the Emperors: Robert Amiss / Baroness Jack Troutbeck Mysteries (Robert Amiss / Baronness Jack Troutback Mysteries) Ruth Dudley Edwards Large Type / Large Print edition

Praise for Killing the Emperors...and style than Ruth Dudley Edwards." -New York Times "Not just an expert crime story, but a stinging satire of the madhouse of the modern art world...a delight. " -Andrew Klavan, author of The Homelanders series Lady (Jack) Troutbeck is missing. So is celebrity curator Sir Henry Fortune and his partner, art dealer Jason Pringle, along with a growing list of celebrities who populate the London art world. Then when news comes of a New York disappearance, the fears of the art establishment go transAtlantic. But why is Baroness Troutbeck a target? Can Jack's friends rescue her before she becomes the next horrifying "hommage murder" satirizing notorious works of art? Ruth Dudley Edwards, an historian and prizewinning biographer, has written seriously and/or frivolously for almost every national newspaper in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom since 1993. She won the Last Laugh award for the funniest crime novel of the year in 2008 for Murdering Americans. www.ruthdudleyedwards.co.uk