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  • This Little Measure
    Sara Woods
    ' ’To my son Andrew,’ it said, ’I leave the problem of the Velasquez.’ ' He leaned forward and added eagerly, 'The thing is, you see, there wasn’t any Velasquez... there never had been.'The Gaskells, wealthy owners of a family shipping line, were a querulous mix of self-righteous puritans and rascally pirates, so it when it came to light that one of them might have purloined a ...
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  • The Windy Side of the Law
    Sara Woods
    'He didn’t know where he was......and hard on that realization the further thought came with the force of a blow. He didn’t know who he was.'Antony and Jenny Maitland’s old friend Peter Hammond didn’t think he had smuggled heroin into the country when he alighted in London from an engineering job overseas-but he just couldn’t remember! And he was certain he didn’t murder that m...
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  • Though I Know She Lies
    Sara Woods
    And then he received the small note in a laboured, childish scrawl:'She didn’t...she didn’t...she didn’t!'Is beautiful Barbara Wentworth, on trial for the fatal poisoning of her wealthy sister, Laura Canning, whose heir she was, telling the truth-or is she deceitfully spinning a web of lies? Antony Maitland, brought in by Barbara’s barrister, his eminent uncle, Sir Nicholas Har...
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  • Enter Certain Murderers
    Sara Woods
    'Let’s say, a man’s presumed innocent-''A very proper attitude,' Denning applauded. 'But don’t you think you’re carrying it a little too far?'Antony and Jenny Maitland’s stage actress friend Meg Hamilton (see Bloody Instructions) tells them that her lover Roger Farrell is the prime police suspect in the fatal shooting of the man who had been blackmailing his late mother. Worse ...
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  • Let’s Choose Executors
    Sara Woods
    'It had sometimes seemed to Maitland, in the course of his researches, that there was nothing original left to be done when it came to extracting poisonous substances from the hedgerow; they were all there, foxglove and monkshood and deadly nightshade, and man’s ingenuity more than sufficient to exploit their murderous qualities, even if he had been a little slow to split the a...
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  • Bloody Instructions
    Sara Woods
    'Miss Bell found him,' said Antony. 'That was about fifteen minutes after I got there. She let out a yell that brought us all running. He’d been stabbed in the back'Who had the effrontery to fatally stab James Winter, a mild and highly respectable London solicitor, as he was inoffensively taking tea in his office? The possibilities are plentiful, but police suspicion lands on a...
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  • The Third Encounter
    Sara Woods
    'I’m afraid you may have to resign yourself to the fact that your husband is getting mixed up with that gang of thugs in Whitehall again,'The phone call was interrupted!  Who could have wanted viciously to strangle kindly Dr. Martin to death while he was on the line with his old friend Antony Maitland?  According to the police, guilt lies with Dr. Martin’s impecunious scapegrac...
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  • Error of the Moon
    Sara Woods
    He did not see the blurred lights that followed him, nor the shape of the car loomed at last out of the mist. But he felt the force of the impact and an eternity of pain...Something wicked is going on at the Carcroft Works of General Aircraft Limited, located on the lonely Yorkshire moors. Foul play and deadly espionage, by the looks of it.  Under what is dubbed the Full Moon P...
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  • Trusted Like the Fox
    Sara Woods
    'It will be interesting to watch you dealing with an impossible situation. Interesting and-I am sure, my dear boy! - instructive.'The year of the trial is 1962. The defendant claims he is Michael Godson, a blameless photographer. The prosecution insists he is really Guy Harland and has charged him with high treason. Two decades ago, it is said, Harland brutally assaulted his sc...
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  • Malice Domestic
    Sara Woods
    'I will not take a case involving an insanity plea. As you very well know.'When old Uncle William Cassell returned home to England for the first time in nearly twenty years, he arrived just in time for afternoon tea, followed by his own late evening murder-in his own brother Ambrose’s study, no less!  Police arrest William’s great-nephew, Paul Herron, who was found outside the ...
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  • Careful Mountain
    Sara June Woods
    Careful Mountain is the third book by the polynymous Sara June Woods/Moss Angel/Never Angeline Nørth etc. A kaleidoscope of nature, broken love poems, run-on sentences, and letters full of digressions that take on a life of their own, this volume has Woods/Angel approaching poetry but never quite letting it take hold. Featuring an 8-part poem titled Speckled Flowers that spills...
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