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Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes is the writer behind the dark comedy Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide. He specializes in mystery fiction with a sharp, satirical edge.
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Synopsis
Aircraft engineer Cliff Iverson is admitted to the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a secretive institution — its location unknown even to its own students — whose entire curriculum is the art of the undetectable murder. To graduate, each student must plan and carry out the killing of one deserving target. Cliff's is Merrill Fiedler, the former boss whose corruption and safety cover-ups cost people close to Cliff their lives and livelihoods. Set in the 1950s and narrated through the mock-instructional voice of the school's dean, the novel follows Cliff and his fellow students as they're taught the patience, misdirection, and discipline a perfect crime requires — and what it actually costs to go through with one.
Genres
Characters
Cliff IversonProtagonist
Aircraft engineer and new McMasters student planning the murder of his former boss.
Gemma LindleyProtagonist
A McMasters student blackmailed by her boss over suspicions surrounding her father's death; she plans his murder as her graduation thesis.
Dulcie MownProtagonist
Stage name of Hollywood actress Doria Maye, a McMasters student targeting the predatory studio executive who torments her.
Merrill FiedlerAntagonist
Cliff's corrupt former boss at Woltan Industries, and his intended target.
Harbinger HarrowSupporting
Dean of the McMasters Conservatory, narrating in an instructional voice.
Frequently asked questions
Is this book part of a series?
This novel is the first volume in a series titled The McMasters Guide to Homicide, with a sequel titled Murder Your Mate planned by the author.
What inspired the concept of the McMasters Conservatory?
The author developed the idea after noticing that while instructional books exist for nearly every conceivable subject, there was no equivalent guide for the art of homicide, leading him to create a fictional, clandestine university for that purpose.