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Title: The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell ISBN: 0-440-20745-2 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 09 September, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The funniest of them all
Comment: This is the third of Sarah Caudwell's sublimely funny murder mysteries narrated by Hilary Tamar, professor of legal history at Oxford, and featuring her young barrister friends. All four of these books are hilarious, and this is the funniest of the lot. Not many books in my life have made me cry with laughter, but this one reduced me to tears on several occasions. The adventures of young Michael Cantrip (educationaly disadvantaged, poor boy, he went to Cambridge)in the Channel Islands and in France and Monaco are full of wildly funny incidents. The poor boy has to suffer spending five hours shut in the boot of a car, being locked in a wine celler by a dotty waiter etc, meanwhile back in london his colleagues are having to cope with his barmy uncle. The plot is amazingly convoluted, and like all the books you may find yourself getting a bit lost in the complexity of the financial details, but who cares. Just enjoy the ingenious story, the wonderful characters, the witty dialogue, and Sarah Caudwell'smarvellous style. What a tragedy that there are only four of these marvellous books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Letter writing at its best
Comment: Cantrip is missing! Having been seconded to assist with the mysterious Daffodil settlement in the Tax Haven of the Channel Islands, he disappears, and there seem to be bodies all over the place, bodies and unlimited suspects who might well have been involved in murdering them - or then again might not. Even murder isn't necessarily on the cards here. Really, it is up to Professor Hilary Tamar to sort things out and find the culprits, and find Cantrip at the same time.
A while ago we were discussion (on a Jane Austen list) the art of the epistolary form of the novel - and perhaps this is the original idea behind Caudwell's form of mysteries - they are very reliant on letter writing. While the first mystery featured letters by Julia from Venice (Thus was Adonis murdered), and the second Serena from Corfu (The Shortest Way to Hades), this has Young barrister, Michael Cantrip, writing from..... well.... all over France - and using the handy mechanism of the Telex machine to send his messages back to the members of the nursery at 62 New Square (and the occassional less than flattering note to their Clerk, Henry).
A very funny, bouynat mystery with the usual Caudwell twist at the end - I guess the unexpected seems to occur every few pages really - The only thing I would mention is that I didn't feel like all the clues were quite at my grasp as they might have been - however, I didn't mind, it was such a rollicking good fun ride. Sometimes I wonder if I read these as mysteries or comedies - they are lovely as both. .
Rating: 5
Summary: Delicious
Comment: I was delighted with Cauldwell's third book in her too-short series. Much maligned Cantrip always makes me laugh, and you get plenty of him in this book.
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Title: The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell ISBN: 0440212332 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 05 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell ISBN: 0440212316 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Sibyl in Her Grave by Sarah Caudwell ISBN: 0440234824 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Murder at the Old Vicarage by Jill McGown ISBN: 0449218198 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 31 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George ISBN: 0553801309 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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