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!
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From Publishers Weekly
Astringently British witticisms season Caudwell's third suspense novel with Professor Hilary Tamar of Oxford, as usual, telling the tale. One of her young lawyer friends, Michael Cantrip, is off in the Channel Islands where he joins an international group charged with administering the "Daffodil Settlement," involving a great fortune. Checks on the previous administrators reveal that one of them, a strong swimmer, had drowned during a meeting on the Cayman Islands. Alerted to their friend's possible "death by misadventure," the coterie at Lincoln's Inn flies to his defense. The tensions increase moment by moment, capped by a heady scene between Michael and a charming Italian contessa. Besides giving readers a bewitching mystery, the author absorbs them in the legends of Jersey, Sark, Little Sark--all the storied Channel Islands. Mystery Guild alternate.
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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!