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""Let's say, a man's presumed innocent-"" ""A very proper attitude,"" Denning applauded. ""But don't you think you're carrying it a little too far?"" Antony and Jenny Maitland's stage actress friend Meg Hamilton (see Bloody Instructions) tells them that her lover Roger Farrell is the prime police suspect in the fatal shooting of the man who had been blackmailing his late mother. Worse yet, from the Maitlands' perspective, it appears that the police also believe that Meg may have been Roger's accessory in the crime. Can Antony save Meg and Roger from the police-as well as from themselves? It seems that the bumped-off blackmailer may have other victims as well. Could the culprit have been another blackmailee who decided to ""put paid"" to the dead man's criminal schemes? How will Antony fare when he is pitted against a ruthless individual who is determined that murder-not to mention assorted other ill deeds done-will never out? ""Taut suspense thriller ... complex and fascinating puzzle ... [Antony Maitland] is sure to become the British answer to Perry Mason-but with more style."" Camden Courier-Post ""I found it a genuine puzzler, absorbing, and wholly satisfying. Should I ever need the services of a London barrister, Antony Maitland is my man."" Harold Q. Masur

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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.

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