- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (23 Feb 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140112944
- ISBN-13: 978-0140112948
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,445,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This courtroom drama raises questions about what is truth and what illusion in the administration of justice. A respectable wife, taking a break after her mother's death, accepts black skipper Cully King's invitation to board the racing yacht "Bewitched", and reappears dead in a fishing-net.
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Format:Hardcover
A story of murder, lust, greed and jealousy. Set in a courtroom, Margaret Millar's brilliant crime thriller tells of the tragic murder of a married fortysomething white woman, aboard a ship. The defendant for the murder is Cully King, a thirty seven year old black man, alleged to have had an affair with her on the ship.
While the drama of the court unfolds, we also get to hear about the lives and perspectives of the staff in the court.
Thoughtful, intelligent, insightful tale that will have the reader thinking about the book days after finishing it.
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Life's Quirky Turns
28 Jun 2001
Format:Paperback
If you like following a trial, with simple explanations, much dry humor, and true suspense, then Margaret Millar's "Spider Webs" fills the bill. We get a close look at the judge, at the prosecutor, the defense lawyer, the court clerk, and the accused murderer, who seems to be a magnet for all the others.
He is a copper-colored black man, from the Islands, a skipper of a million dollar yacht, who has sailed to Santa Felicia County, California from the Islands, with two crew members, in preparatiion for their next big race to Hawaii. But Cully, that's his name, gets taken in by a middle-aged lady, brings her aboard the ship and what follows, the good Lord only knows, for the lady disappears, and is eventually found in a forest of kelp, off-shore, lifeless. That is what the trial is all about.
The book has a surprise ending. There is something for the young, the middle-aged and the old, to mull over in this tightly plotted book - for the best laid plans of "mice and men" are easily toppled by life's quirky turns.
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