Thus Was Adonis Murdered by Sarah Caudwell
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Set in Venice
(Veneto)
©1981
Out of Print
BIO
SARAH CAUDWELL studied law at St. Anne s College, Oxford, was called to the Chancery Bar, and practiced as a barrister for several years in Lincoln's Inn. She then became a member of the legal section of a major London bank, where she found herself specializing in international tax planning. Sarah Caudwell died in January 2000.

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Thus Was Adonis Murdered

JACKET NOTES:  DEATH IN VENICE. For young barrister Julia Larwood, it was o be a vacation in pursuit of eros, in flight from the tax man .... An Art Lover's Holiday to Italy. Reduced to near penury by the Inland Revenue, Julia could hardly afford such a luxury, but she'd be in hock to the Revenue either way, so why not Poor, hapless, incurably sentimental Julia. How could she know that the ravishing young Art Lover for whom she conceived a fatal passion was himself an employee of Inland Revenue Or that her hard-won night of passion would end in murder-with her inscribed copy of this year's Finance Act lying a few feet from the corpse...
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