Life
1944, b. Dublin; dg. of Robert Dudley Edwards. Describes herself as intellectually English but temperamentally
Irish; issued
Carnage on the Committee (2002), her tenth detective novel.
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Works
Non-fiction, Ruth Dudley Edwards, An Atlas of Irish History (1973); The Triumph of Failure (1977), a biography of Patrick Pearse; James Connolly (1981); True Brits: Inside the Foreign Office (London: BBC Books 1994); Faithful Tribe. An intimate portrait of the Loyal Orange Lodges (1999).
Fiction, Corridors of Death (1982); The Saint Valentine’s Day Murders (1984); Clubbed to Death (Gollancz 1992); Matricide at St Martha’s (1994); 190pp.; Ten Lords A-Leaping [Collins Crime] (Collins 1995); Murder in the Cathedral (London: HarperCollins 1996); Publish and Be Murdered (London: HarperCollins 1997); Carnage on the Committee (London: HarperCollins 2002; 2003), 224pp.
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Criticism
‘Murderess’, review of A Talent to Deceive, by Robert
Barnard (Irish Press, 1 Metheamh 1980).
Orna Mulcahy, Review of Ruth Dudley Edwards, The Anglo-Irish Murders
(London: HarperCollins), in The Irish Times [Weekend] (3 Nov.
2001).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)