Sarah Caudwell THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES This page is an exception to the rule that my friends . never appear on the same side of anything.

Sarah Caudwell THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES This page is an exception to the rule that my friends . Those that follow are dedicated to them jointly, in gratitude for their kindness and encouragement and innumerable drinks in the Corkscrew. PROLOGUE Cost candor what it may, I will not deceive my readers. This page is an exception to the rule that my friends .

This page is an exception to the rule that my friends . I do not know if Sir James was tall or short, or what kind of hat his wife wore; the crocuses may have been yellow; there may have been no pretty girls in Lincoln’s Inn Fields that day. I do not know and cannot invent, for the Scholar is the servant not of Art but Truth. Forgive me, dear reader: my narrative must have its starting-point nearly half a century later, when my own interest first became engaged in the affair.

I do not know if Sir James was tall or short, or what kind of hat his wife wore; the crocuses may have been yellow; there may have been no pretty girls in Lincoln’s Inn Fields that day. I do not know and cannot invent.

Sarah Caudwell is the author of Thus Was Adonis Murdered, The Shortest Way to Hades, The .

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. If you enjoy Edmund Crispin and Dorothy Sayers, I think you will love Sarah Caudwell.

The Shortest Way to Hades. Author: Sarah Caudwell. Professor Hilary Tamar’s young Chancery barrister friends have finished an inheritance case when one of the minor beneficiaries turns up dead. It’s assumed to be suicide, and as she wasn’t the heiress nobody cares, but when the heiress is involved in an sailing accident in Greece, Hilary realises these were not accidents

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Start by marking The Shortest Way to Hades as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. All of the Oxford graduates pityingly treat Cantrip like a slow-witted child.

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Find sources: "Sarah Caudwell" – news · newspapers · books · scholar . The Shortest Way to Hades (1985). The Sirens Sang of Murder (1989). The Sibyl in Her Grave (2000).

Find sources: "Sarah Caudwell" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). December 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). Learn how and when to remove this template message). Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn (27 May 1939 – 28 January 2000), a British barrister and writer of detective stories.