Shortest Way to Hades (SIGNED)

First published 1984

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From classicmysteries.net: “We are told quite often that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Certainly the intentions of the lawyers working to protect the assets of a very large (and very English) estate from taxation had the best of intentions.

Without a change to the legal trust which had originally been set up, the heirs of a five million pound estate would have to pay more than three million in taxes. A little practical – and perfectly legal – editing of the trust agreement would reduce that bill very considerably. No, the intentions were certainly good. It was hardly their fault that someone decided a certain short cut along that well-paved road was going to be needed.”

And when that shortcut involves murdering one of the beneficiaries, Oxford legal scholar Hilary Tamar is called upon by her young friends practicing at Lincoln’s Inn to unravel the mystery before the murderer eliminates another inconvenience – permanently.

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Scribner · 208 pages

Publisher
Scribner
Pages
208
ISBN
978-1-4721-0268-3 +9
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Publisher
Scribner
Pages
208
ISBNs
  • 978-1-4721-0268-3
  • 978-0-14-008488-7
  • 978-1-78033-926-9
  • 978-0-7531-6839-4
  • 978-0-7531-2223-5
  • 978-0-7531-1688-3
  • 978-0-14-012874-1
  • 978-0-14-009401-5
  • 978-0-593-59875-7
  • 978-0-440-21233-1
Author
Caudwell, Sarah L.
Statement
Shortest Way to Hades (SIGNED) / Sarah L. Caudwell.
Records
Open Library

Subjects

  • 1980s
  • Law teachers
  • Tamar, hilary (fictitious character), fiction
  • Hilary Tamar (Fictitious character)
  • Women teachers
  • Inheritance and succession
  • Murder
  • Investigation
  • Oxford (England)
  • England
  • Hilary (Fictitious character) Tamar