The Sibyl in Her Grave

Zusatztext "Anyone who enjoys an ingenious mystery plot will enjoy Caudwell's." — Newsday A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Marvelous ... Combines wit and forbearance! intellect and passion! above all! humor and perfection of language. Sarah set out to write a classic English village crime story! complete with vicar and mad virgin! and here it is! together with Hilary Tamar and the brilliant! sexy! young lawyers at the Chancery Bar." — Amanda Cross "Brilliant." — Chicago Sun-Times "The humor is wicked! but the intelligence behind it is smart and sweet." — The New York Times Book Review "Clean! elegant! observant and witty." — The Washington Post Also by Sarah Caudwell: The Sirens Sang of Murder "An absolute joy." — Elizabeth Peters The Shortest Way to Hades "An utterly delightful book ... it will be irresistible to all who enjoy polished! civilized prose." — The New York Times Book Review Thus Was Adonis Murdered "A tour de force ... a hilarious comedy of manners." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch Available from Dell Informationen zum Autor 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.” Klappentext Julia Larwood's Aunt Regina needs help. She and two friends pooled their modest resources and invested in equities. Now the tax man demands his due, but they've already spent the money. How can they dig themselves out of the tax hole? 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 rectory, plowing under a cherished garden, and establishing an aviary of ravens. When Isabella is found dead, all clues point to death by fiscal misadventure. So Julia calls in an old friend and Oxford fellow, Professor Hilary Tamar, to follow a money trail that connects Aunt Regina 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: Hilary, him — or her — self.The two men struggling on the floor of the Clerks' Room differed widely in appearance: one young, of slender build, dressed in cotton and denim, with honey-coloured hair worn rather long and a pleasing delicacy of feature; the other perhaps in his sixties, tending to plumpness, wearing a pinstriped suit, with the round, pink face of a bad-tempered baby and very little hair at all. They rolled this way and that, as it seemed inextricably entwined, uttering indistinguishable cries and groans, whether of pain or pleasure I could not easily determine. A ladder was also involved in the proceedings. I concluded after a few moments that their entanglement was neither hostile nor amorous, but of an involuntary nature on both sides, the result, very possibly, of an accidental collision between the older man and the ladder at a moment when the younger was standing, perhaps imperfectly balanced, on one of its upper rungs. “Sir Robert — Sir Robert, are you all right?” Selena's voice, as she ran forward to assist the older man to his feet, conveyed a tactful mixture of deference, apology and concern — it seemed likely that he was one of her clients. If so, this was not the moment...

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Caudwell, Sarah L. Caudwell
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.07.2001
• EAN: 9780440234821
• ISBN: 978-0-440-23482-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Hilary Tamar; Hilary Tamar
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense