Personality of the month

For those of you who have read this blog for a while, you will remember the section entitled - Personality of the Week. Unfortunately for the category's title, my time is in even scarcer amounts than it was when I set up the section. Consequently, I think a little remarking is in order.

Hence forward, the section formally known as Personality of the week or Personality of the Fortnight will become Personality of the Month.

And who better to kick off the re-branding than Ruth Dudley Edwards....

This fine woman is both an academic and a crime writer. It is for her contribution to the Crime writing and comedy genres that I wish to nominate her the prize of... a free cup of coffee.

Amongst her works are "Murder at St. Margaret's" and "corridors of death". I especially enjoyed reading corridors of death because of its comic references to the Civil Service. In particular, I enjoyed the creation of character who was so universally disliked (and disagreeable) that every character had a good reason to kill the victim.

I admire Dudbley Edwards for two reasons. Firstly, she makes light work of the seemingly impossible task of combining comedy and crime writing. Secondly, she is an all-rounder. She has an academic career, she writes regularly in the British press, and still manages to write crime books for fun.

Three cheers for Ruth Dudley Edwards!!