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
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By J. Mason
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This is the first book in the Robert Amiss series and the first book I have read by this author. She is a very eloquent writer and as a reviewer I only wish I could do her work justice. This mystery is set in Government and as I know very little about politics and have even less interest, I prejudged it as likely to be boring but I couldn't have been more wrong. It has great pace, style and wit and even though it was published in 1982, a very long time ago in politics, from the satirical view of this book I would suspect not much in the arena has changed. The story gets going very quickly with the murder of a particularly nasty civil servant so there are plenty of motives and the policeman assigned to the case relies on a lowly civil servant, Robert Amiss to give him a lot of fascinating inside information. I just want to say that mystery lovers should not be put off by the political setting, as I was intially. To me the political world used to look so intimidating, but after reading this book, it just looks ridiculous.
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Another wicked poke at the establishment. Very witty and acerbic, but enjoyable read, particularly Robert Amiss, pooley and Milton. I do have all Ruth Dudley-Edwards books and will not part with them.
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Robert Amiss finds himself involved in a murder case - not as a suspect because he couldn't have murdered the victim - but as a mole helping Superintendent Jim Milton to understand the background to the case. Amiss is a civil servant working in Whitehall and Sir Nicholas, his boss, is murdered.
The problem is that just about everyone who was involved in the meeting just before the murder had the means, the motive and the opportunity to commit the crime. Milton finds himself at a loss when it comes to understanding the civil service culture and Amiss agrees to help.
This is a well written murder mystery with an interesting and authentic background with many amusing moments. I first read this book some years ago and I found it just as good on second reading. It is well plotted with believable and likeable characters. The book is the first one in a series and more series characters are introduced in later books.
The problem is that just about everyone who was involved in the meeting just before the murder had the means, the motive and the opportunity to commit the crime. Milton finds himself at a loss when it comes to understanding the civil service culture and Amiss agrees to help.
This is a well written murder mystery with an interesting and authentic background with many amusing moments. I first read this book some years ago and I found it just as good on second reading. It is well plotted with believable and likeable characters. The book is the first one in a series and more series characters are introduced in later books.
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