The Sirens Sang of Murder, Sarah Caudwell
The Sirens Sang of Murder, Sarah Caudwell
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The Sirens Sang of Murder

Author: Sarah Caudwell

Narrator: Lorna Bennett

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2024

Synopsis

Young barrsiter Michael Cantrip has skipped of to  the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case  that's worth a fortune -- if Cantrip's tax-planning  cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip  has waded in way over his head. Strange things are  happening on these mysterious, isolated isles.  Something is going bump in the night -- and bumping  off members of the legal team, one by one. Soon  Cantrip is telexing the gang at the home office for  help. And it's up to amateur investigator Hilaray  Tamar (Oxford don turned supersleuth) to get  Cantrip back to safety of his chambers -- alive!

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.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sid on May 13, 2022

The Sirens Sang Of Murder is just as good as its two predecessors – which is really saying something. This time, the mystery revolves around tax-avoidance/evasion. There is a difficulty with a hugely valuable trust whose origins, whereabouts and beneficiaries are deliberately obscure. Young Cantrip (......more

Goodreads review by Kristen on April 30, 2023

The most superbly entertaining entry in this series. The Sirens Sang of Murder features more cool European locations (the Channel Islands, Monte Carlo) and more delightful language. Caudwell's narrator, Hilary Tamar, has a voice that's nothing like real life, but infinitely more funny and charming.......more

Goodreads review by Bev on December 12, 2020

I say, Larwood, is this tax-planning business really as exciting as these Daffodil characters seem to think or do they just make believe it is to make life more interesting? I mean, if I'd known it was all about does and secret documents and biffing chaps in false beards, I wouldn't have minded goin......more

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