58 pages • 1 hour read
Rupert HolmesMurder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Before You Read
Super Short Summary
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes is written as a self-help manual by Dean Harbinger Harrow of McMaster’s Conservatory for the Applied Arts, an elite school that teaches the art of committing the perfect murder. It follows three students, Cliff Iverson, Gemma Lindley, and Doria Maye, as they navigate their education in the 1950s and learn the skills required to "delete" their targets while teaching readers through their experiences and mistakes. This text deals with dark themes including suicide and features scenes of murder and sexual behavior.
Reviews & Readership
Review Roundup
Rupert Holmes' Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide is a darkly comedic exploration of morally ambiguous territory. Praise highlights its witty prose and clever plotting, while critiques note occasionally implausible scenarios. An inventive, satire-laden narrative that will entertain fans of unique crime fiction despite some suspension of disbelief.
Who Should Read Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide?
Fans of dark humor, satire, and unconventional mystery will relish Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes. Comparable to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair, this book appeals to those who appreciate clever, witty narratives with a macabre twist.
RecommendedReading Age
18+yearsBook Details
Mystery / Crime Fiction
Horror / Thriller / Suspense Fiction
Historical Fiction
Emotions/Behavior: Apathy
Emotions/Behavior: Revenge
Life/Time: Mortality & Death