Bloody Instructions

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The possibilities are plentiful but police suspicion lands on a temperamental Shakespearean actor Joseph Dowling whose estranged wife the old man had been representing in her divorce action. The larger-than-life star of London's latest hit production of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Macbeth</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Dowling not only had a motive for murder he had a dagger to draw as well. These actors!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now it may well be the last act for Dowling in his newest role-criminal defendant-unless brilliant barrister-sleuth Antony Maitland and his famed courtroom performer uncle Sir Nicholas Harding can put the spotlight on the real killer in this Sara Woods' highly-praised debut detective novel.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This gripping courtroom drama from 1962 features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is just the sort of book I enjoy - a good detective story with human characters and told with freshness and an amusing good humor. - Francis Iles author of Malice Aforethought</em></p>