Each member of the nursery, a group of brilliant yet sometimes bungling young barristers, has one member of a wealthy British family as a client.
Don\'t miss any of Sarah Caudwell\'s riveting Hilary Tamar mysteries: THUS WAS ADONIS MURDERED - THE Shortest WAY TO Hades - THE SIRENS SANG OF MURDER - THE SIBYL IN HER GRAVE.
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.
Hilary demurs.
Julia thinks it\'s murder.
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.
Then Deirdre had a terrible accident.
Everyone in the family agreed to support the heiress, the ravishing raven-haired Camilla Galloway, in her court petition--except dreary Cousin Deirdre, who suddenly demanded a small fortune for her signature.
It seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes on a five-million-pound estate: change the trust arrangement.
Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Die first, pay later.
J.
Foreword by A.
Inheritance becomes deadly in this gripping literary puzzle--the second installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with Thus Was Adonis Murdered .
When they suspect that a murderer\'s afoot in the family\'s complex real estate tax case, they once again call in their friend Hilary Tamar, brilliant Oxford don.
Each member of the nursery, a group of brilliant yet sometimes bungling young barristers, has one member of a wealthy British family as a client
