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And then he received the small note in a laboured, childish scrawl: ""She didn't...she didn't...she didn't!"" Is beautiful Barbara Wentworth, on trial for the fatal poisoning of her wealthy sister, Laura Canning, whose heir she was, telling the truth-or is she deceitfully spinning a web of lies? Antony Maitland, brought in by Barbara's barrister, his eminent uncle, Sir Nicholas Harding, Q. C., to investigate the case, believes his uncle's lovely client is innocent of the crime, though he also feels certain as well that she has been telling him lies. Determining what it is that Barbara is lying about-and just whom she would tell lies for-is essential if Antony is to find his way out of this baffling murder maze. Also essential is getting to the truth of the dead Laura Canning's character. Was she the saint many around her believed, or something altogether more complex? ""Further proof that Sara Woods is one of the best mystery writers in the field."" Marguerite Johnson, The Houston Post ""Without doubt, Sara Woods is one of the finest 'whodunit' authors around today. Her books are a joy"" Boston Sunday globe

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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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