Mystery Women Authors

Sarah Caudwell

Biography

Sarah Caudwell was born in London in 1939. She studied law for several years at Oxford and worked as a barrister in Lincoln's Inn in London, where her first novel Thus Was Adonis Murdered is set. Today she belongs to the staff of the legal advisers of the Lloyds bank Ltd.

Sarah has refused to be drawn as to the gender of her protagonist, Hilary Tamar.

Books

Hilary Tamar Mysteries

Thus Was Adonis Murdered

The first mystery in Caudwell's popular series featuring amateur investigator Hilary Tamar and a cast of clever and trouble-prone young London barristers. When a young man is found dead in Julia Larwood's bed, her barrister friends are the only ones who can uncover the truth of this masterpiece of murder. (From Amazon.com)

Published Mass Market Paperback reprint 1994 (Scribner 1981)

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The Shortest Way to Hades

Each member of "the nursery," a group of brilliant yet sometimes bungling young barristers, has one member of a wealthy British family as a client. When they suspect that a murderer's afoot in the family's complex real estate tax case, they once again call in their friend Hilary Tamar, brilliant Oxford don. (From Amazon.com)

Published Mass Market Paperback 1995 (Reprint)

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The Sirens Sang of Murder

Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped of to the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case that's worth a fortune -- if Cantrip's tax-planning cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip has waded in way over his head. Strange things are happening on these mysterious, isolated isles. Something is going bump in the night -- and bumping off members of the legal team, one by one. Soon Cantrip is telexing the gang at the home office for help. And it's up to amateur investigator Hillary Tamar (Oxford don turned supersleuth) to get Cantrip back to safety of his chambers -- alive!

Published Mass Market Paperback 1990 (Delacorte 1989)

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