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by Sarah Caudwell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Robinson Publishing; New edition edition (29 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841195758
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841195759
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 35,607 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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There's no such thing as a free lunch...Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped off to the Channel Islands to take on a tax law case that's worth a fortune - if Cantrip's tax-planning chums can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip has waded in way over his head. Strange things are happening on these mysterious, isolated islands and something - or somebody - is bumping off members of the legal team, one by one. Very soon Cantrip is calling upon the aid of his colleagues back at Lincoln's Inn and it's up to amateur investigator Hilary Tamar to get Cantrip back to the safety of his chambers - alive!


About the Author

Sarah Caudwell studied law at St Anne's College, Oxford and practised as a barrister for several years in Lincoln's Inn. She later specialised in international tax planning at a major London bank. She died in January 2000.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A triumph of wit and style over improbable plotting, 5 Mar 2001
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This review is from: The Sirens Sang of Murder (Hardcover)
Sarah Caudwell's books always speak with her own very distinctive siren voice: witty, erudite, mildly malicious. The Sirens Sang of Murder continues the tradition first established in Thus Was Adonis Murdered of centering a rather improbable story around a very plausible legal environment, peopled by characters whom it would be a pleasure to meet in the Corkscrew their favourite winebar in Holborn. Though their professional services might be a little erratic, their company would be stimulating.Once again Hilary Tamar is dragged reluctantly from Oxford, and his master-work on common law, to perform feats of deduction, driven by a case in Chancery that takes his young associates from Monaco to the Cayman Islands, while investment advisers suffer a mortatlity rate that would drive wiser men into a safer profession. But, in true Tamar tradition, all is finally, resolved literally deus ex machina, leaving the reader to regret yet again Sarah Caudwell's own untimely death last year.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The funniest of all, 26 Mar 2004
By L O'connor (richmond, surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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All four of Sarah Caudwell's legal whodunnits are very, very funny, but this one is defintely the funniest. I haven't read many books that have reduced me to tears of laughter, but this is one of them. As with all her books, the plot is very, very complicated and full of legal technicalities that I find quite incomprehensible, but this only adds to the enjoyment. Once again legal historian Hilary Temple gets involved in solving a mystery with her young friends at the Chancery Bar. The educationally disadvanteged Michael Cantrip (poor boy, he went to Cambridge)finds himself travelling from the Channel Islands to Monte Carlo in pursuit of a supposed villain, while meanwhile his long-suffering colleagues back in London have to cope with the antics of his dotty uncle. The part where Cantrip gets locked in the cellar of a French restaurant by someone else's barmy uncle is perhaps the funniest in the book, but it is hilarious throughout.
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5.0 out of 5 stars the best book of an excellent author, 29 Oct 1998
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This review is from: The Sirens Sang of Murder (Paperback)
sarah caudwell has written very fine mysteries featuring hilary tamar and a group of lawyers. Her books are witty and well written. The charcaters are astounding and the plotting and pacing are at perfect pitch. While all three are top-notch, this story of finacial skulduggery in the channel islands is my favorite. I hope Ms. Caudwell graces with another book someday soon.
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