The Shortest Way to Hades - Hardcover

Caudwell, Sarah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684182920 ISBN 13: 9780684182926

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985

Synopsis

Complications include murder when five British barristers petition the court for the alteration of Lady Frances Remington-Fiske's trust arrangements for her five-million-pound estate

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

It seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes on a five-million-pound estate: change the trust arrangement. Everyone in the family agreed to support the heiress, ravishing raven-haired Camilla Galloway, in her court petition -- except dreary Cousin Deirdre, who suddenly demanded a small fortune for her signature. Then Deirdre had a terrible accident. That was when the young London barristers handling the trust -- Cantrip, Selena, Timothy, Ragwort, and Julia -- summoned their Oxford friend Professor Hilary Tamar to Lincoln's Inn. Julia thinks it's murder. Hilary demurs. Why didn't the heiress die? But when the accidents escalate and they learn of the naked lunch at Uncle Rupert's, Hilary the Scholar embarks on the most perilous quest of all: the truth....

About the Author:

Sarah Caudwell is also the author of Thus Was Adonis Murdered, The Shortest Way to Hades, and The Sirens Sang of Murder. She studied law at St. Anne's College, Oxford, was called to the Chancery Bar, and practiced as a barrister for several years in Lincoln's Inn. She then became a member of the legal section of a major London bank, where she found herself specializing in international tax planning. Sarah Caudwell died in January 2000.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0684182920
• ISBN 13: 9780684182926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 207