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Antony Maitland #33
Dearest Enemy
Leonard and Victoria Buckley are a legend of the London stage; in their forth-three married years they have played opposite each other in countless plays, and not the least of their charms is their apparently idyllic marriage. It is a shocked Antony Maitland, then, who learns that Leonard Buckley suspects his wife of trying to murder him. And when Victoria Buckley is killed on stage on the opening night of a new thriller in which she and her husband are once again both cast, the police are quick to pin the murder on the most obvious suspect: Leonard Buckley. But the famous barrister-detective Maitland is not so sure. As his investigation winds its elegant and intricate course, culminating in a dazzling court battle, Sara Woods fans will once again take pleasure in this superb addition to the series, and readers new to Antony Maitland mysteries will have the delightful experience of meeting one of mystery fiction’s most intrepid and attractive heroes.
- GenresMystery
191 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1981
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About the author
Sara Woods
121 books18 followers(Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd)
UK (1922 - 1986)
aka Anne Burton, Mary Challis, Margaret Leek
Born in England, she was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Filey, Yorkshire.
During the Second World War, she worked in a bank and as a solicitor's clerk in London. Here she gained much of the information later used in her novels. Lana married Anthony George Bowen-Judd on April 25, 1946. They ran a pig breeding farm between 1948 and 1954. In 1957 they moved to Nova Scotia, Canada. She worked as a registrar for St. Mary's University until 1964. In 1961 she wrote her first novel, Bloody Instructions, introducing the hero of forty-nine of her mysteries, Anthony Maitland, an English barrister.
Her last years she lived with her husband at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
UK (1922 - 1986)
aka Anne Burton, Mary Challis, Margaret Leek
Born in England, she was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Filey, Yorkshire.
During the Second World War, she worked in a bank and as a solicitor's clerk in London. Here she gained much of the information later used in her novels. Lana married Anthony George Bowen-Judd on April 25, 1946. They ran a pig breeding farm between 1948 and 1954. In 1957 they moved to Nova Scotia, Canada. She worked as a registrar for St. Mary's University until 1964. In 1961 she wrote her first novel, Bloody Instructions, introducing the hero of forty-nine of her mysteries, Anthony Maitland, an English barrister.
Her last years she lived with her husband at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
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April 1, 2025
One of the things I enjoy about Sara Woods' Antony Maitland stories is that they are often what I call "court or trial procedurals" in the same way that some mysteries are classified as police procedurals. Antony and his uncle are both barristers, and the stories often follow the trials they are appearing in, with fairly detailed descriptions, and often ending with an unexpected development brought out in court. The closest American equivalents might be some of Erle Stanley Gardners Perry Mason stories.
November 1, 2015
Another good one! I really enjoy reading about Antony Maitland and the way he figures things out, and I especially like his wife Jenny.
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