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Shortest Way to Hades
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Shortest Way to Hades Mass market (i.e. 4 by 7 inch softcover) - 1995

by Sarah Caudwell

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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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Dell, 1995. Later Edition. Mass Market (i.e. 4 by 7 inch softcover). New (Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition)/N/A (volume is softcover). New
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  • Title Shortest Way to Hades
  • Author Sarah Caudwell
  • Binding Mass Market (i.e. 4 by 7 inch softcover)
  • Edition Later Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dell, New York
  • Date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 000-201882
  • 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)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Oxford (England)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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First line

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....

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About the author

Sarah Caudwell, the pipe-smoking author of Thus Was Adonis Murdered and three other novels featuring Oxford Don Hilary Tamar, died in 2000. "Hilary's voice was in my head before any of the plots," Caudwell told writer Martin Edwards in an interview for Mystery Scene. "I knew from the outset Hilary must be an Oxford don--but of equivocal sex and even equivocal age, resembling that precise, donnish kind of individual who starts being elderly at the age of twenty-two."

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