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  • Published: 30 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9781590584378
  • Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $37.99

Ten Lords A-Leaping



The House of Lords will never be the same again. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, Jack Troutbeck, assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss, plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she violently disapproves. But she hadn't reckoned with the campaign of intimidation mounted by the animal activists and the attempt on the life of one of her allies, shortly followed by scenes of horrifying carnage amongst the peers...

  • Published: 30 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9781590584378
  • Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $37.99

About the author

Ruth Dudley Edwards

Ruth Dudley Edwards is an historian, journalist and crime writer. Her non-fiction includes Patrick Pearse: the Triumph of Failure, Victor Gollancz: a Biography (winner of the James Tate Black Memorial Prize), The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist, 1843-1993, Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families Pursuit of Justice and Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil Harmsworth King and the Glory Days of Fleet Street. Her eleven crime novels are satires on the British Establishment.

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