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Bloody Instructions: An Antony Maitland Mystery
Paperback
Series: The Antony Maitland Mysteries, Book 1
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781915393944
Publisher: Dean Street Press
Published: Dec 2 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Miss Bell found him, said Antony. That was about fifteen minutes after I got there. She let out a yell that brought us all running. He'd been stabbed in the back
Who had the effrontery to fatally stab James Winter, a mild and highly respectable London solicitor, as he was inoffensively taking tea in his office?
The possibilities are plentiful, but police suspicion lands on a temperamental Shakespearean actor, Joseph Dowling, whose estranged wife the old man had been representing in her divorce action. The larger-than-life star of London's latest hit production of Macbeth, Dowling not only had a motive for murder, he had a dagger to draw as well. These actors!
Now it may well be the last act for Dowling in his newest role-criminal defendant-unless brilliant barrister-sleuth Antony Maitland and his famed courtroom performer uncle, Sir Nicholas Harding, can put the spotlight on the real killer in this, Sara Woods' highly-praised debut detective novel.
This gripping courtroom drama from 1962 features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
This is just the sort of book I enjoy - a good detective story, with human characters and told with freshness and an amusing good humor. - Francis Iles, author of Malice Aforethought
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