Sarah Caudwell

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born

January 01, 1938 in Cheltenham, The United Kingdom

died

January 01, 2000

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories

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Sarah Caudwell (1939-2000) was a mystery writer. The four books of her "Hilary Tamar" series are her only novels other than The Perfect Murder which she co-wrote with several other novelists, but she also wrote several short crime stories.

Series:
* Hilary Tamar Mystery

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Books by Sarah Caudwell

Average rating: 4.13 · 1,999 ratings · 203 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Hilary Tamar, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 1982 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Shortest Way to Hades (Hilary Tamar Mystery, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 442 ratings — published 1985 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Sibyl in Her Grave (Hilary Tamar Mystery, #4) 4.13 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Sirens Sang of Murder (Hilary Tamar Mystery, #3) 4.17 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Anne Perry Presents Malice Domestic (Malice Domestic, #6) by Anne Perry (Contributor), Edward Marston (Contributor), Lindsey Davis (Contributor) 3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime by Maxim Jakubowski (Editor / Contributor), Nicholas Blincoe (Contributor), Elizabeth Peters (Contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Women Before the Bench by Carolyn Wheat (Editor), Claire Youmans (Contributor), Rochelle Majer Krich (Contributor) 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	A Suit of Diamonds by Robert Barnard (Contributor), Gwendoline Butler (Contributor), Mike Ripley (Contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The Perfect Murder-2 Cassettes by Jack Hitt, Tony Hillerman, Sarah Caudwell 3.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by Sarah Caudwell

Hilary Tamar Mystery (4 books)
by Sarah Caudwell

4.15 avg rating — 1,924 ratings

Quotes by Sarah Caudwell

“...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.”
― Sarah Caudwell

tags: humor-fiction-writing

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“The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.”
― Sarah Caudwell, The Sirens Sang of Murder

tags: humor-fiction-mystery-writing

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“You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself with shame to the pleasure of the moment."

I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct.

"She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.”
― Sarah Caudwell, The Shortest Way to Hades

tags: drugs , humour , jane-austen

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