The Sibyl in Her Grave: A Mystery
by Sarah Caudwell
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385299346
- ISBN 13
- 9780385299343
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
296 p.; ill. map.
Illustrated dust jacket has very, very minor edgewear, but otherwise in Fine condition. Black hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, ffep has previous owner's name in pen, otherwise Fine and possibly unread.
From the jacket flaps:
Julia Larwood's aunt Regina needs help. It seems that she and two friends pooled their modest resources and, on the advice of another friend, invested in equities. The short-term investment in small companies. Big risk. Big return. Now the taxman demands his due. Aunt Regina is flummoxed. They've already spent the money. How can they dig themselves out of the tax hole? But the real question is how on Earth did three amateurs make a thousand-percent profit in record time, triggering a capital gains tax twice the amount of their original investment? Even more to the point: Can the sin of capital gains trigger corporeal loss?
That's one for the sibyl, psychic counselor Isabella del Comino, who has offended Aunt Regina and her friends by moving into the local directory, plowing under a chair and establishing an aviary of ravens. When Isabella is found dead, all clues seem to lead to death by fiscal misadventure. Was the sibyl compromising someone's bottom line? Or was it one for the birds?
Julia calls in old friend and Oxford fellow, Professor Hilary Tamar, to follow a money trail that connects Aunt Regina and her friends to what appears to be capital fraud—and capital crime. The two women couldn't have a better champion than the erudite Hilary, as once again Sarah Caudwell sweeps us into the scene of the crime, leaving us to ponder the greatest mystery of all Hillary, him—or her—self.
Synopsis
Sarah Caudwell is also the author of Thus Was Adonis Murdered , The Shortest Way to Hades , and The Sirens Sang of Murder . She studied law at St. Anne's College, Oxford, was called to the Chancery Bar, and practiced as a barrister for several years in Lincoln's Inn. She then became a member of the legal section of a major London bank, where she found herself specializing in international tax planning. Sarah Caudwell died in January 2000.
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- Bookseller
- The Mortuary Korps (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000053
- Title
- The Sibyl in Her Grave
- Author
- Sarah Caudwell
- Illustrator
- Claire Hughes (map); Edward Gorey (dust jacket)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385299346
- ISBN 13
- 9780385299343
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Fiction; Hilary Tamar; Law teachers; Oxford, England; Professor; Detective; Mystery; Murder; Killer; Whodunit; Gender-Neutral Writing; Agender
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime Fiction; Mystery; Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity;
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