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Antony Maitland #40
The Bloody Book of Law
First US Edition. Pages are clean and binding is tight.
- GenresMystery
384 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Sara Woods
115 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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May 3, 2020
This is the second book by Sara Woods that I have started and gave up on about 1/3 of the way through. Thank the gods and goddesses that the 7 books I got of hers were only a dollar each at a thrift store.
She introduces about 19 characters in the first two pages, rambles on about them for chapters ad nauseam and there's not one damned interesting bit in any of them. It baffles me that she was a successful author. Perfect insomnia fixers here.
She introduces about 19 characters in the first two pages, rambles on about them for chapters ad nauseam and there's not one damned interesting bit in any of them. It baffles me that she was a successful author. Perfect insomnia fixers here.
March 27, 2023
In many ways I really enjoyed reading this - the story romps on and the bad end unhappily. HOWEVER, considering it was set in 1974, it was SO old fashioned. Sara Woods left the UK for Canada in the 50s, apparently, and based her work on her time working in legal offices before that. And it feels like she never updated her knowledge of British society. All those toffs, still stealing jewellery. So just 3 stars.
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