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Living with Rachel and contemplating marriage, Robert Amiss feels settled at last. He even has a proper job, making sure that The Wrangler – a right-wing, 200-year-old English magazine of economics, politics and letters – actually comes out every week despite the hopeless inefficiency of Alistair Bragg, its erratic editor. Yet Amiss is not entirely happy with his lot, for the atmosphere at the paper is poisoned by rampant egocentricity and savage ideological battles. Things are so bad that not even the appointment of Baroness Troutbeck can bring cheer to this troubled office.
When Joe Waldron, the drunken features editor, is found drowned in a bowl of punch, suspicions of foul play are brushed aside by the police. But then Bragg, too, is found dead and Amiss’s friend Chief Superintendent Jim Milton takes charge of the investigation. Is the murderer a monetarist, enraged by the paper’s change of direction? An agent of the newspaper’s proprietor who wants to break the terms of the trust? The deputy editor, desperate to be in the limelight at the paper’s bicentennial celebrations? Or Bragg’s wife, enraged at his dalliance with the tarty receptionist? There is no shortage of motives and, in typical Dudley Edwards style, no shortage of laughs in this riotous farce.
First published 1998.
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