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Whilst on a trip to the sunny Channel Islands to find the heir to a lucrative tax law case, young barrister Michael Cantrip finds himself in over his head. Peculiar things begin to occur on the mysterious and isolated islands with something - or somebody -- bumping off members of his legal team. With the help of his mentor, amateur investigator Hilary Tamar, Cantrip, must find a safe passage back to the Lincoln's Inn Chambers.… (meer)
another great book in the series. not exactly a "puzzle" mystery but the ending is highly satisfying and it all fit together nicely with some great misdirection. the characters and writing are regularly funny, the locations and descriptions constantly vary and are interesting, it builds suspense well - a highly entertaining and enjoyable book. a great series that I'd highly recommend to anyone who likes mystery fiction ( )
Caudwell's books are witty and sophisticated mysteries set in the elite legal world of Lincoln's Inn. This one was excellent, a complex mystery about a tax law case involving a large fortune. It was set up in a way to protect beneficiaries from officialdom, except that the beneficiary's name has been lost. Filled with fabulous characters and the interesting setting of the Channel Islands, Monaco and the Caymans this was a lot of fun. My favourite character is Cantrip, a barrister who is a dedicated supporter of technology and communicates hilariously by the (then) current state-of-the-art telex machine. Aided as usual by Oxford scholar Professor Hilary Tamar, whose gender is Caudwell's secondary mystery. ( )
Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped off to the Channel Island 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 thing are happening on these mysterious, isolated isles. Something is going bump in the night -and pumping 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 Hilary Tamar (Oxford don turned super-sleuth) to get Cantrip back to the safety of his chambers - alive!
An enjoyable murder mystery set in the Channel Islands, with lawyers and beneficiaries and rich people's money. My favorite bits are the telexes from Cantrip as he pursues a lead and the names of some of the characters, like Justice Heltapay. This is my first foray into the Hilary Tamar series, and I'm glad to find out, by happy accident, that I have another of Ms. Caudwell's books on the shelf. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
To Billee, for putting up with the writing of it
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
There will be much disappointment, I fear, among my fellow scholars. (prologue)
"No, no, let me go or I'll scream," cried the lovely Eliane, her beautiful eyes filling with tears and her bosom heaving under the delicate silk of her blouse as she struggled to free herself from the vile embrace of the brutal Barristers' Clerk.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
"My client," said Julia, "a simple, innocent property developer, had entered into a perfectly straightforward transaction which happened to involve a bank in Amsterdam and one or two companies in the Netherlands Antilles and which therefore happened to result in his having no tax to pay. Or rather, that's how it would have resulted if the case hadn't come before Welladay, who considers it the duty of every citizen to arrange his affairs in such a way as to maximize his liabilities to the Inland Revenue, and of his professional advisers to assist him in achieving that result."
The chagrin of a woman displaced in her lover's affections is as nothing compared with that of a barrister superseded in the favour of a leading firm of solicitors.
Despite every effort to attribute the desire of Miss Clementine Derwent for Cantrip's presence in Jersey to some proper and decorous motive, Ragwort had been unable to think of any.
"A girl in Clementine's position," continued Julia, "would no doubt reflect that there are two kinds of young men. On the one hand, there are those, such as yourself, my dear Ragwort, to whom the least one could offer would be the devotion of a lifetime and a profoundly spiritual regard almost untainted by the grossness of carnality. From the pursuit of young men of that kind Clementine is plainly debarred by her existing obligations. On the other hand, there are young men who might be persuaded to settle for something less. Young men - how shall I put it? - young men of obliging disposition. It is pretty generally known, I believe, that Cantrip is one of the latter sort."
"She accordingly made a bet with Cantrip that she could successfully defend her virtue against the most vigorous and determined attack on it."
"That," said Ragwort, "was the ostensible contract. In substance, I fear, it was neither more nor less than a sordid and degrading bargain for the provision of services of a most personal nature for the sum of five pounds - a sum, I should have thought, which even Cantrip would consider humiliatingly modest."
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
No doubt she was right; but we had been dealing, as I pointed out, with a deplorably old-fashioned murder.
Whilst on a trip to the sunny Channel Islands to find the heir to a lucrative tax law case, young barrister Michael Cantrip finds himself in over his head. Peculiar things begin to occur on the mysterious and isolated islands with something - or somebody -- bumping off members of his legal team. With the help of his mentor, amateur investigator Hilary Tamar, Cantrip, must find a safe passage back to the Lincoln's Inn Chambers.
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