{"product_id":"the-shortest-way-to-hades-9780593598757","title":"The Shortest Way to Hades","description":"\u003cb\u003eInheritance becomes deadly in this gripping literary puzzle--the second installment of the Hilary Tamar mysteries that began with \u003ci\u003eThus Was Adonis Murdered\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sarah Caudwell is one of my very favorite mystery writers.\"--A. J. Finn, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Window\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDie first, pay later.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes on a five-million-pound estate: change the trust arrangement. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen Deirdre had a terrible accident. 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. Julia thinks it's murder. Hilary demurs. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon't miss any of Sarah Caudwell's riveting Hilary Tamar mysteries: \u003cbr\u003eTHUS WAS ADONIS MURDERED - THE SHORTEST WAY TO HADES - THE SIRENS SANG OF MURDER - THE SIBYL IN HER GRAVE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Caudwell\u003c\/b\u003e, the pipe-smoking author of \u003ci\u003eThus Was Adonis Murdered\u003c\/i\u003e and three other novels featuring Oxford Don Hilary Tamar, died in 2000. \"Hilary's voice was in my head before any of the plots,\" Caudwell told writer Martin Edwards in an interview for \u003ci\u003eMystery Scene\u003c\/i\u003e. \"I knew from the outset Hilary must be an Oxford don--but of equivocal sex and even equivocal age, resembling that precise, donnish kind of individual who starts being elderly at the age of twenty-two.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631454884114,"sku":"9780593598757","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ae6bb5d5-b86a-4970-8117-ea1d8c00262c.jpg?v=1765971839","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-shortest-way-to-hades-9780593598757","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}