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Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities.

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 Baro

Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School.

Robert Amiss, lapsed civil servant, is approached by Lord Papworth, owner of the Wrangler, to step in as business manager for the August Journal and do something about its steady drain on his lords

For many years Westonbury Cathedral has been dominated by a clique of High Church gays, so when Norman Cooper, an austere, intolerant, happy-clappy evangelist, is appointed dean, there is shock, ou

The House of Lords will never be the same.

Being a member of the House of Lords and Mistress of St Martha’s College in Cambridge might seem enough to keep anyone busy, but Baroness (Jack) Troutbeck likes new challenges.

Life in a dismal bureaucratic cul-de-sac is not what Robert Amiss expects when the British civil service lends him for a year to the British Conservation Corporation.

Robert Amiss is persuaded by his friend Detective Sergeant Pooley of the CID to take a job as a waiter in Ffeatherstonehaugh’s (pronounced Fanshaw’s), a gentlemen’s club in St James’, London.

St. Martha’s College, Cambridge, had been staggering along on a shoestring for decades. Then alumna Alice Toon leaves her old school a huge fortune.

In "Bryant & May in the Field," a woman is found with her throat slashed in a snowy park, yet the killer managed to escape without leaving any footprints.

Christopher Fowler is acclaimed as a "new master of the classical detective story" (Denver Post).

A controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence--it's business as usual for the Peculiar Crimes Unit's partners.

Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has myster

The erstwhile members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are left out in the cold when the unit is shut down, but then a beheading prompts their recall.