An Obscure Grave

Antony Maitland #44

by Sara Woods

Suave barrister-detective Antony Maitland defends an eccentric gentleman accused of killing his infant nephew in order to inherit his late brother's estate

Genres: Mystery

384 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1985

About the author

(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.

Reviews

[☯Emily Ginder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great, easy to read book by Sara Woods. She is definitely an overlooked mystery writer. I love the characters, especially, Antony and his uncle, Nicholas. I am not sure how Antony comes up with his solutions, but it is always fun when he finds the bad guys based on his intuition.

[Deb]

I read all of these that I could find back in the '80s and loved them. Classic British procedurals.