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The Shortest Way to Hades Mass market paperback - 1995
by Caudwell, Sarah
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Each member of "the nursery", a group of brilliant yet sometimes bungling young barristers, has one member of a wealthy British family as a client. When they suspect that a murderer's afoot in the family's complex real estate tax case, they once again call in their friend Hilary Tamar, brilliant Oxford don.
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- Title The Shortest Way to Hades
- Author Caudwell, Sarah
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dell, New York
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0440212332I3N00
- ISBN 9780440212331 / 0440212332
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 6.89 x 4.2 x 0.89 in (17.50 x 10.67 x 2.26 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Oxford (England)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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PROFESSOR TAMAR-MR. SHEPHERD RANG AND SAID PLEASE COME TO LONDON AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
From the jacket flap
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....