Richard Timothy Conroy, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-312-11038-3
This third, often slapstick, Smithsonian Institution mystery featuring Henry Scruggs, on loan there from Foreign Service, substitutes a string of cheap cracks and pratfalls for plot. In 1976, 37 members of the K'ng-Gui tribe, who resemble the...
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Richard Timothy Conroy, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (227p) ISBN 978-0-312-07807-2
In this delightful debut, Conroy mixes greed with Washington bureaucracy and slapstick. On loan from the State Department, Henry Scruggs is serving as head of the Smithsonian Institution's foreign affairs office. He agrees to the proposal of India's
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Richard Timothy Conroy, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (194p) ISBN 978-0-312-09341-9
Known as the Nation's Attic, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., is a promising setting for a mystery series, but Conroy's prequel to The India Exhibition is a disappointment. Henry Scruggs is a timid, lovelorn bachelor on loan to the...
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Richard Timothy Conroy, Author Thomas Dunne Books $27.5 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-16959-6
When Conroy was a young U.S. foreign service officer 35 years ago, a tour of duty in what was then British Honduras was regarded as an assignment from hell. The weather was so humid that envelopes were ordered without glue to avoid having to steam...
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Richard Timothy Conroy, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-26493-2
Unlike most diplomatic memoirs, which deal with weighty matters of politics and foreign relations, Conroy's (Our Man in Belize, etc.) reminiscences are a lark. As U.S. vice consul (and later consul) in Vienna between 1963 and 1966, he seems to have...
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