Murdering Americans is the 11th in the Robert Amiss/Jack Troutback series by Ruth Dudley Edwards. I've quite liked this series, except for the last two (of which this sadly is one), in which I felt Edwards pushed her politics (with which I mostly disagree) more to the forefront. Although I thought the earlier titles were excellent (see my previous post
here), and I think this one is merely good, I'm going to post it anyway, since it has dropped to $3.43 at Kindle US, and the titles in this series usually sit at $6.49 and up. Just be warned that there's more political attitude in this one - and, of course, YMMV and you might agree with her politics anyway
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Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VQKKPPQ
Kindle US/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07VQKKPPQ
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""Academia (n.): a profession filled with bad food, knee-jerk liberalism, and murder... Being a member of the House of Lords and Mistress of St Marthas College in Cambridge might seem enough to keep anyone busy, but Baroness (Jack) Troutbeck likes new challenges. When a combination of weddings, work, and spookery deprives her of five of her closest allies, she leaps at an invitation to become a Distinguished Visiting Professor on an American campus. With her head full of romantic fantasies inspired by 1950s Hollywood, and accompanied by Horace, her loquacious and disconcerting parrot, this intellectually-rigorous right-winger sets off from England blissfully unaware that academia in the United States is dominated by knee-jerk liberalism, contempt for Western civilization, and the institutionalisation of a form of insane political-correctness. Will the bonne viveuse Baroness Troutbeck be able to cope with the culinary and vinous desert that is New Paddington, Indiana? Can this insensitive and tactless human battering-ram defeat the thought-police who run Freeman State University like a gulag? Does she believe the late Provost was murdered? If so, what should she do about it? And will she manage to persuade Robert Amiss who describes himself bitterly as Watson to her Holmes and Goodwin to her Nero Wolfe to abandon his honeymoon and fly to her side?
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