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"" 'To my son Andrew, ' it said, 'I leave the problem of the Velasquez.' "" He leaned forward and added eagerly, ""The thing is, you see, there wasn't any Velasquez... there never had been."" The Gaskells, wealthy owners of a family shipping line, were a querulous mix of self-righteous puritans and rascally pirates, so it when it came to light that one of them might have purloined a museum's priceless Velasquez, it was only natural that another of them would sternly demand its return. Soon that particular Gaskell winds up dead as an old master, with yet another Gaskell on trial for the murder. Antony Maitland becomes involved in the case-his wife Jenny has a cousin who, perhaps rashly, is rather smitten with the defendant-and with Antony comes the reluctant participation of his acid-tongued uncle, Sir Nicholas Harding, the eminent Q. C. While Sir Nicholas duels with the opposition in court, Antony tries to fill in the missing portions in the Gaskell clan's weird portrait of murder and save an innocent person from being framed. ""The most durable and appealing series of English courtroom mysteries!"" Publishers Weekly ""Sara Woods again proves herself to be the master of detective fiction."" Leeds Journal

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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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