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Killing the Emperors Lib/E: A Jack Troutbeck / Robert Amiss Mystery(12 Robert Amiss Mysteries Lib/E)

Killing the Emperors Lib/E: A Jack Troutbeck / Robert Amiss Mystery(12 Robert Amiss Mysteries Lib/E)


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Sir Henry Fortune, celebrity curator, has vanished. So too has his partner in love and money, disreputable art dealer Jason Pringle. Panic spreads throughout the London art world when more people go missing. No one can locate Anastasia Holliday, sensational Abject artist; Jake Thorogood, the critic who catapulted her into stardom; or Dr. Hortense Wilde, notorious for having influenced generations of art students to despise craftsmanship. Hysteria hits the media when it is found that the common link between the victims is that their careers blossomed when they embraced newly fashionable conceptual art. Could it be that they are hostages? If so, why? Ransom? Revenge? Who will be next? Will it be Sir Nicholas Serota, mighty overlord of British temples of the avant-garde, or the internationally renowned young British artist Damien Hirst, whose dross became platinum? Is danger in store for Charles Saatchi, megarich husband of a TV cook and the genius who took talentless young people and turned them into a winning brand? When news comes of a disappearance in New York, the fears of the art establishment go transatlantic, with even such stars as Jeff Koons at risk. Next the friends of Lady (Jack) Troutbeck report her missing, too, she a standard-bearer of conservative values in education and art who recently described admirers of conceptual art as knaves and fools. The police are bewildered. And then begin the horrifying Hommage murders, lethal satires on notorious works of art. Can Troutbeck's friends rescue her before her worst fantasies become reality?

About the Author :
Ruth Dudley Edwards, a historian, novelist, biographer, and journalist, has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Gold Dagger Award, and the National University of Ireland Prize. Her novel Corridors of Death was named a 1982 New York Times Notable Book. Wanda McCaddon (d. 2023) narrated well over six hundred titles for major audiobook publishers, sometimes with the pseudonym Nadia May or Donada Peters. She earned the prestigious Audio Award for best narration and numerous Earphones Awards. She was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine.

Review :
"A raucous send-up of the art world's collectors, critics, curators, and especially those postmodernists who call themselves artists...Imagine And Then There Were None written with wicked humor and a major grievance about money, not taste, ruling the art world." -- "Kirkus Reviews" "British/Irish author Edwards is in top form as she skewers conceptual art ('pretentious, specious, nihilistic rubbish') and its practitioners...Edwards is a master of delightful, biting satire, whether demolishing real or imaginary poseurs." -- "Publishers Weekly (starred review)" "In deplorable taste and wickedly funny, this, the tenth in the Robert Amiss series, will consolidate the author's reputation for scurrilous humour. Sprightly, saucy, and ingenious." -- " Sunday Times (London) on Carnage on the Committee " "[A] brilliant mix of farce and mystery...The author delivers a jolt with each development in the case, and the final one is a thunderclap." -- "Publishers Weekly on Corridors of Death"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781470810153
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 12 Robert Amiss Mysteries Lib/E
  • Sub Title: A Jack Troutbeck / Robert Amiss Mystery
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1470810158
  • Publisher Date: 02 Oct 2012
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 170 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 272 gr


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