This the third in the Hilary Tamar series, Oxford don who solves the cases brought to the professor's attention by the group of friends who work as lawyers in New Square, London. In this one, Cantrip has gone off to the Channel Islands on a tax-law case, and is indulging his love of telex machines by sending plenty back home. It's through these that Hilary and the others gain enough information to solve a mystery after a companion of Cantrips is killed.
It sadly took me a long time to get through this, which is a shame as I really enjoyed the first one. It's not that I didn't enjoy it but I didn't understand any of the tax law explanations and there were a lot. The telexes from Cantrip were almost as good as Julia's letters in the first novel though.

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