A Case of Life and Limb

Winter, 1901. The Inner Temple is even quieter than usual under a blanket of snow and Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case. All is calm, all is bright - until the mummified hand arrives in the post... While the hand''s recipient, Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring, is rightfully shaken, Gabriel is filled with curiosity. Who would want to send such a thing? And why? But as more parcels arrive - one with fatal consequences - Gabriel realises that it is not Sir William who is the target, but the Temple itself.Someone is holding a grudge that has already led to at least one death. Now it''s up to Gabriel, and Constable Wright of the City of London Police, to find out who, before an old death leads to a new murder.>

About the author

Sally Smith spent all her working life as a barrister and later King's Counsel in the Inner Temple. After writing a biography of the famous Edwardian barrister, Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC, she retired from the bar to write full time. A Case of Mice and Murder, her first novel, was inspired by the historic surroundings of the Inner Temple in which she still lives and works and by the rich history contained in the Inner Temple archives. A Case of Mice and Murder is the first in a series starring the reluctant sleuth Sir Gabriel Ward KC.

Report

Witty and cunningly plotted . . . as entertaining as her first Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Sally Smith
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2025
• EAN: 9781526668769
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-6876-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 44 mm
• Series: The Trials of Gabriel Ward
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical mysteries, LAW / Gender & the Law, Gender & the law, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, c 1900 to c 1909, Law and society, gender issues