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... Typhoon by Charles Cumming 16. Gilded Youth by Kate Cambior 17. The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell 18. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell 19. The Sibyl in her Grave by Sarah Caudwell 20. A Good Death by Elizabeth Ironside ***1/2 STARTED 12/29/09, FINISHED 1/3/10 ...

Thus Was Adonis Murdered 1981 The Shortest Way to Hades 1984 The Sirens Sang of Murder 1989 The Sibyl in her Grave 2000 There you go.

I'd read them in order, the first being Thus was Adonis Murdered. She died of breast cancer so there are only six books, I believe.

#12: I will look for Some Hope. Thanks for the recommendation on that one. I have Thus Was Adonis Murdered sitting on my shelf waiting patiently to be read. One of these days I will get to it!

122. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell An entertaining mystery by the humorous Ms. Caudwell. Not as tight as the previous one I've read (The Sirens Sang of Mu ...

... people can be redeemable. I loved Mother's Milk in August and liked these very much too. Four and a half stars. 62. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell The second of her mysteries I've read - they feature Professor Hilary Tamar and four young and attractive barristers(?). This ...

... November 60. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor 61. Some Hope : A Triology by Edward St. Aubyn 62. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell 63. How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall 64. Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood December 65. The Rema ...

... her to me and I haven't read a good mystery in a while. From my library, keeping to the mystery genre I suggest Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell. Her young barristers always make me laugh.

... Above Suspicion. another Gothis/mysrty writer is Phyliss Whitney. Not pre-1965 but a similar style ar those like Thus was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell set among he bright young deniszens of in a London law firm. Also the mysterie written by Georgette Heyer like Penhallow ...

... Stasia, I love it! >243, Thanks, seasonsoflove! I'll have to track down your thread and check it out. :) I hope you like Thus Was Adonis Murdered... I love that series! It's one I first came across here in the 75 Books Challenge group, too, though I forget who was reading it... Maybe several ...

... My reading group is voting on our next round of reading and it looks like it will include Sarah Caudwell's Thus Was Adonis Murdered as our "who Dun It" genre pick. Come on over and discuss it with us when we read it. The schedule will be posted at Book Bunch in http://bookchat ...

... love interest are very likable. There are a few funny parts, but overall kind of blah. Three stars. 49. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell A cute little English mystery. It took me a little while to adjust to the style, narrated by the mysterious (male or female?) P ...

... E. C. Bentley Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell Threshold of Fire by Hella S. Haasse Death at the Chase ...

#11 - came very close to buying Thus Was Adonis Murdered a couple of days ago - but decided to read one of Caudwell's books I already had to make sure I liked her writing - I have had The Sybil in her Grave for a while now - with your recommendation I will be giving it a go soon.

#27: I got my copy of Thus Was Adonis Murdered in this week. I hope I like it as much as you did!

19. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell Thus Was Adonis Murdered was absurdly entertaining. I giggled almost all the way through it. I read another book in the series, The Sybil in Her Grave, some years ago, and enjoyed it--and had decided that the book following Cantrip was the ...

19. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell Thus Was Adonis Murdered was absurdly entertaining. I giggled almost all the way through it. I read another book in the series, The Sybil in Her Grave, some years ago, and enjoyed it--and had decided that the book following Cantrip was the ...

I just finished Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell, and found it highly entertaining. This was the second book in the series that I've read by her, and I'll definitely get the others. Now I'm reading Whose Body? by Sayers. I know she is a widely loved author, and I don't see any ...

... of was The Nameless Detective. A little searching around for what I could remember, though, and I'd have to say it's the Hilary Tamar series by Sarah Caudwell.

... Inn nobs (i.e., barristers). She specialized in tax law and wrote four mystery novels: The Shortest Way to Hades, Thus Was Adonis Murdered, and The Sirens Sang of Murder. In counting, I find only three novels listed here, so perhaps the fourth was purloined or perhaps I have been ...

... anything too heavy for reading on New Year's Eve but it was a fun romp of a mystery and I enjoyed it thoroughly. 1. Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell Mystery 246 pages ETA: I'm tucking a book ...

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... by Kyoko Mori September American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld The Late Bloomer's Revolution by Amy Cohen Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell The Nettle Spinner by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer The Corpse Will Keep by Pat Capponi October The Richest Season ...

... -sportswriters betting list for the Nobel prize due in about a week. I have read 40 of them.The ones I missed are: Adonis Magris Les Murray Inger christensen Ismail Kadare Antonio Tabucchi Assia Djebar Gita Sereny Ko Un Bei Dao Herta Muller James Ngugi ...

... With Peacocks by Donna Andrews Wedding Day Murder by Leslie Meier A Comedy of Murders by George Herman Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers

... not get thru that book. I didn't find any of the characters appealing, didn't like the writing, and couldn't care less re Thus was Adonis Murdered.

I finished Thus Was Adonis Murdered this past week. Big thank you to all those who recommended Sarah Caudwell. She is a hoot! Too bad she wrote so few books (only four), but I'm definitely on the lookout for the rest of them.

We read Sarah Caudwell's Thus Was Adonis Murdered for one of my book discussion groups, and I could not get through that book. It's one of the rare times I didn't finish a book. I did find it interesting that nowhere in the book does the author make clear the sex of the protagonist, so the ...

... I have read is the Virgin Suicides. I would also add: Behind the scenes at the museum The haunting of Hill House Thus Was Adonis Murdered

Oh, yes! I bought Thus Was Adonis Murdered yesterday - and haven't entered it, yet. (A fall from my no-book-buying, as the local Half Price Books was having its 20% off Memorial Day Sale....) It looked very engaging, I've meant to buy Sarah Caudwell before, and the promise of wit and ...

Thus was adonis murdered by Sarah Caudwell features a British scholar and young barristers looking into murky doings At least one of the Donald Westlake "Dortmunder" crime capers features an attempt to steal from a private collection -- Nobody's Perfect http://www.librarything.com/tag/ ...

Um, it made me do it. I opened Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell tonight and started it along with the others. It made me.

... Recipes from Mexico's Heart by Zarela Martinez. Somehow, I'm not sure how, a mystery snuck onto my order as well! Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell. Funny, I seem to recall that was one of the books recommended to me in that "other" thread.

MrsLee, if you haven't read it, I think you might enjoy Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell. (edit) Oops, didn't realized I'd skipped someone. KimberlyL. for you I recommend Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon -- it has mystery and theater!

... BBC Campion series that ran some years ago - have any of you seen them? Pamelad - I was recently looking for a book, and Thus Was Adonis Murdered leaped off the shelf into my hands. It was recommended to me some time ago, and I bought it but never read it. I've added it to my teetering TBR ...

... Hilary's ex-students. A good one to start with is The Sirens Sang of Murder. ETA The first in the series is Thus Was Adonis Murdered.

... my money the wittiest legal mysteries out there are the Hilary Tamar series by Sarah Caudwell - in order, these are Thus was Adonis Murdered The Shortest Way To Hades The Sirens Sang of Murder The Sibyl in Her Grave These don't depend on court-room scenes, they're more the ...