Thus Was Adonis Murdered
Fleeing from tax-related worries, Julia Larwood indulges in a holiday, unaware that the fellow tourist she falls for is an Inland Revenue employee, who turns up dead in her bed with her copy of the Finance Act nearby. Reprint. PW.
Fleeing from tax-related worries, Julia Larwood indulges in a holiday, unaware that the fellow tourist she falls for is an Inland Revenue employee, who turns up dead in her bed with her copy of the Finance Act nearby. Reprint. PW.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440212317 (0440212316)
ASIN: 0440212316
Publish date: 1994-06-01
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Funny,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Cozy Mystery,
Fiction,
Historical
bookshelves: summer-2010, mystery-thriller, published-1981, art-forms, epistolatory-diary-blog, italy, britain-england, fraudio, filthy-lucre, handbag-read, dodgy-narrator, amusing Read from June 14 to 15, 2010 Brilliantly read by Eva Haddenblurb - Sarah Caudwell drew on her experience as a Br...
Anyone who can tell a pretty hilarious Shakespeare joke is okay in my book. And this book is full of really hilarious Shakespeare jokes. Poor Desdemona. Oh, man. L, as they say, OL. And the slapstick. Oh, the slapstick! She gets it just right in that dry, British way, where you feel like she’...
Enjoyed the rather unusual style (dry, very British humour) and found the plot very entertaining.
work mp3 Brilliantly read by Eva Haddenblurb - Sarah Caudwell drew on her experience as a British tax lawyer to create these hilarious mysteries, in which the mysterious scholar Hilary Tamar (who is far too modest to foist personal details on the reader by doing things like explaining whether male o...
The epistolary style bugged me at the beginning, but I enjoyed the dry humour and the rather 'ghastly; characters. Worth trying her next...
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