Carnage on the Committee

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-01-14 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Latest in Ruth Dudley Edwards's hilarious crime series lampooning the British Establishment: 'I fear it will make you laugh out loud on public transport' Evening Standard.When the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances. Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baroness Jack Troutbeck to step into the breach.Speculation that a killer may be targeting the judges worries the baroness not in the slightest - its the prospect of immersing herself in modern literature that fills her with dread.But noblesse must oblige. even when it means joining the ranks of the superciliati sitting in judgement of the literati.With the baroness at the helm. the judges resume the task of whittling away at the sho...