Thus Was Adonis Murdered
The first mystery in Caudwell's popular series featuring amateur investigator Hilary Tamar and a cast of clever and trouble-prone young London barristers. When a young man is found dead in Julia Larwood's bed, her barrister friends are the only ones who can uncover the truth of this masterpiece...
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The first mystery in Caudwell's popular series featuring amateur investigator Hilary Tamar and a cast of clever and trouble-prone young London barristers. When a young man is found dead in Julia Larwood's bed, her barrister friends are the only ones who can uncover the truth of this masterpiece of murder.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780440212317 (0440212316)
ASIN: 9780440212317
Publish date: 01-07-1994
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
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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