The Shortest Way to Hades
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...
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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....
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440212331 (0440212332)
ASIN: 440212332
Publish date: November 5th 1995
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 314
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
20th Century,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Law,
Cozy Mystery
Series: Hilary Tamar (#2)
bookshelves: published-1985, summer-2010, mystery-thriller, amusing, dodgy-narrator, seven-seas, greece, fraudio, britain-england, sport Read from June 20 to 22, 2010 Workaday mp3 UnabridgedDull and dreary Deidre takes a fall from a balcony at a family party. There is a rather protracted cricket...
Proper British lawyers + orgies = win! I love these ladies like they were my legal sisters. My sisters-in-law, if you would. Bah dum tsss. Thank you folks, I’m here all week. Anyway, they are so wonderful. Instead of hilarious Shakespeare jokes, like the first book had, this book has some impr...
Workaday mp3 UnabridgedDull and dreary Deidre takes a fall from a balcony at a family party. There is a rather protracted cricket match near the end of this book, similar to the overly long contest in one of Lord Wimsey's adventure* That aside, this second Hilary Tamar story is very enjoyable.*forge...