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Ruth Dudley Edwards


Born
in Dublin, Ireland
May 24, 1944

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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.

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* Robert Amiss Mystery
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Average rating: 3.68 · 3,218 ratings · 467 reviews · 36 distinct worksSimilar authors
Corridors of Death (Robert ...

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The English School of Murde...

3.65 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions
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Matricide at St. Martha's (...

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The Saint Valentine's Day M...

3.77 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1984 — 13 editions
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Publish and Be Murdered (Ro...

3.81 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions
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Clubbed to Death (Robert Am...

3.78 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
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Murder in a Cathedral (Robe...

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Carnage on the Committee (R...

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Ten Lords A-Leaping (Robert...

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The Anglo Irish Murders (Ro...

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Corridors of Death The English School of Murder Clubbed to Death Matricide at St. Martha's Ten Lords A-Leaping Murder in a Cathedral
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