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Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide (édition 2023)

par Rupert Holmes (Auteur)

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From the diabolical imagination of Edgar Award-winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to "delete" their most deserving victim. Who hasn't wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you've probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this "Poison Ivy League" college--its location unknown to even those who study there--is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate ... and where one's mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live. Prepare for an education you'll never forget. A delightful mix of witty wordplay, breathtaking twists and genuine intrigue, Murder Your Employer will gain you admission into a wholly original world, cocooned within the most entertaining book about well-intentioned would-be murderers you'll ever read. Rupert Holmes's much celebrated career ranges from chart-topping story songs with surprising twists--"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"--To Tony Award-winning whodunit musicals--The Mystery of Edwin Drood--Edgar Award-winning comedy-thrillers--Accomplice--and the Nero Wolfe Best American Mystery Novel nominated Where the Truth Lies, made into an Atom Egoyan motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. Called "an American treasure" (Los Angeles Times), "a true Renaissance man" by Newsweek, "a comic genius" (Kirkus Reviews) and simply "a genius" (The Times, London), Rupert Holmes brings his wickedly clever storytelling talents to this outrageous and darkly comic mystery set in a secret, idyllic campus where students learn how to "do in others as you would have others do you in."… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
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Info:Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (2023), 400 pages
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DNF at 26%. The presentation is too choppy and the characters are all irritatingly stupid. Especially our MC. And perhaps the school rules become clearer later in the book, but I don’t care enough to find out. (A school that nobody’s heard about has paying students and sponsors? And others get kidnapped to attend but can only leave by death or graduating. The staff boast about simulations of deadly situations, but do nothing when students try to actively kill one another. Including a stranger they have never met. Or how about the fact that students seem to attend classes to learn all manners of murder, even though they are allegedly only allowed one kill in the real world that needs to be planned and executed flawlessly. Zero. Logic.)

I was already bored but then I heard the “motivation and justification” for Cliff’s future murder. It just further proves the point that there is no point. ( )
  ilkjen | Mar 23, 2024 |
I love caper stories. And this book has not just one, but three! Excellent use of humorous narration, as well. Most satisfying. ( )
  Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
This was a great read! But really, what else can you expect from Rupert Holmes (yes, THAT Rupert Holmes; he of the piña colada song “Escape”). Add in Doogie Howser, MD as one of the narrators and you’ve got a book that just can’t lose.

I do think the first half of the story was leagues better than the second. I found myself drumming my fingers during parts of the second half, but there were also some good plot reveals in the second half, so I don’t think I can really complain. ( )
  ldyluck | Jan 6, 2024 |
Murder You Employer begins with an interesting concept, but quickly turns to a tedious journey into the curriculum of this “special” institution. The first story centers a Cliff Iverson, a recently fired worker, who plots to kill his boss who cuts corners in the construction of airplanes. Cliff actually attempts to kill his boss, Merrill Fiedley, by pushing him into the path of a transit train. The act is not successful and people immediately whisk Cliff to some mysterious school where how to murder stands as the field of study. Many words pop into the vocabulary, such as deletist-the person to kill, executor-the actual killer, and executive-the victim. Rupert Holmes inserts too many charts detailing courses of study and explaining rules of the school. Too many twists and turns that created a sense of disorientation. This book falls into a category of oblivion. ( )
  delphimo | Dec 27, 2023 |
Framed as a how-to manual from the McMasters School, which helps people learn how to delete (they're not so crass as to say "murder") the one person in their life who the entire world would be better without, this tells the story of Cliff Iverson, Gemma Lindley, and Doria Maye, our case studies for how (or, perhaps, how not) to go about murdering one's employer successfully.

My mother doesn't read murder mysteries because she has a problem with making murder entertainment. In my mind, mysteries are more about the puzzle, and the real entertainment is seeing how they're solved. This book, however, makes murder the entertainment, full stop. The whole idea of a McMasters School is done in such a (darkly) humorous way, though, that the reader becomes complicit with the characters completing their "thesis" successfully. I found myself straddling the line between cringing at the whole idea and laughing along. And the ending, I have to say, was pitch-perfect. ( )
  bell7 | Dec 9, 2023 |
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Death is better than slavery.
—Harriet Ann Jacobs
Author and abolitionist

Agreed. But whose death?
R. M. Tarrant
Dean of McMasters, 1937-41

It is simplicity itself to fire one's employer. All it
takes is some kindling and a match.

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From the diabolical imagination of Edgar Award-winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to "delete" their most deserving victim. Who hasn't wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you've probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this "Poison Ivy League" college--its location unknown to even those who study there--is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate ... and where one's mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live. Prepare for an education you'll never forget. A delightful mix of witty wordplay, breathtaking twists and genuine intrigue, Murder Your Employer will gain you admission into a wholly original world, cocooned within the most entertaining book about well-intentioned would-be murderers you'll ever read. Rupert Holmes's much celebrated career ranges from chart-topping story songs with surprising twists--"Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"--To Tony Award-winning whodunit musicals--The Mystery of Edwin Drood--Edgar Award-winning comedy-thrillers--Accomplice--and the Nero Wolfe Best American Mystery Novel nominated Where the Truth Lies, made into an Atom Egoyan motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. Called "an American treasure" (Los Angeles Times), "a true Renaissance man" by Newsweek, "a comic genius" (Kirkus Reviews) and simply "a genius" (The Times, London), Rupert Holmes brings his wickedly clever storytelling talents to this outrageous and darkly comic mystery set in a secret, idyllic campus where students learn how to "do in others as you would have others do you in."

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