"What a beautiful word, darling," said Meg Hamilton."Embracery," she repeated in a thoughtful tone, and gave her companion a speculative look, so that he said hastily:
"It doesn't mean anything like that."
She didn't question his interpretation. "What does it mean then?"
Charming stage actress Meg Hamilton (Enter Certain Murderers) struts back into Antony Maitland's life again when her actor friend Jonathan Kellaway is arrested for the murder of his landlord. Meg insists that Jonathan is too good an actor to be guilty, but the state's case against him seems strong. Seemingly connected to the mystery is a woman's scandalous past suicide-or was that murder too? Antony faces off with his old arch-nemesis Superintendent Briggs (Bloody Instructions), who, it seems, will not rest until he imprisons Antony on a murder charge as well. The climax to this twisting tale sees not just Anthony put on the knife's edge of danger but his wife Jenny too.
This gripping courtroom drama from 1968 features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
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Sara Woods, the pen name of Eileen Mary Lana Hutton Bowen Judd, was bornin 1916 in Bradford, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Francis Burton Hutton, a garage proprietor and Sara Roberta Woods, the daughter of a buyer for an engineering firm.In 1946 she married electrical engineer Anthony George Bowen Judd. Following a dozen years of farming in rural Yorkshire, the couple moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1958, where Sara began her prolific mystery writing career. She became well-known for her detective series featuring canny barrister Antony Maitland - a character inspired by her beloved older brother, Antony Woods Hutton, a promising young solicitor who was tragically killed in 1941 at the age of 33 when as a Royal Air Force pilot in the Second World War his plane was shot down during action in Egypt.Sara Woods' detective novels were celebrated for their intricate plots and the authenticity of their courtroom settings and they garnered a longtime, loyal readership. Sara passed away at the age of 69 on November 6, 1985, leaving behind her a rich legacy of four dozen Antony Maitland mysteries.