The Shortest Way to Hades: 2 - Brossura

Caudwell, Sarah

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0440212332 ISBN 13: 9780440212331

Casa editrice: Dell, 1995

Riassunto

In an effort to avoid taxes, a change in trust arrangements is agreed upon by all members of the Galloway family except for Dierdre, who refuses to sign unless she is paid off and promptly suffers a fatal accident. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Sarah Caudwell is the author of Thus Was Adonis Murdered, The Shortest Way to Hades, The Sirens Sang of Murder, and The Sibyl in Her Grave. 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 department of a major London bank, where she found herself specializing in international tax planning. She died in 2000.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

It seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes on a five-million-pound estate: change the trust arrangement. Everyone in the family agreed to support the heiress, ravishing raven-haired Camilla Galloway, in her court petition -- except dreary Cousin Deirdre, who suddenly demanded a small fortune for her signature. Then Deirdre had a terrible accident. That was when the young London barristers handling the trust -- Cantrip, Selena, Timothy, Ragwort, and Julia -- summoned their Oxford friend Professor Hilary Tamar to Lincoln's Inn. Julia thinks it's murder. Hilary demurs. Why didn't the heiress die? But when the accidents escalate and they learn of the naked lunch at Uncle Rupert's, Hilary the Scholar embarks on the most perilous quest of all: the truth....

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• Editore: Dell
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0440212332
• ISBN 13: 9780440212331
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320