Bloody Instructions

Antony Maitland (fictitious character)Fiction, mystery & detective, generalMaitland, antony (fictitious character), fictionEngland, fictionLawyers, fiction

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About this book

**Introducing Antony Maitland, British super-sleuth and courtroom genius** The apparently motiveless murder of an elderly solicitor sets off an unofficial investigation by Antony Maitland, a young barrister, in his own interests and those of his contentious uncle Sir Nicholas who will ultimately bring the case to trial. An actor's divorce action, the disappearance of the dagger from the theatre where he is starring in *Macbeth*, two romances and a long forgotten estate keep this complicated... A debut which is also a bright beginning, certainly for those who like high spirited activity. [ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sara-woods/bloody-instructions-2/ ]

Themes & subjects

Antony Maitland (fictitious character)Fiction, mystery & detective, generalMaitland, antony (fictitious character), fictionEngland, fictionLawyers, fiction

About the author

Sara Woods

7 March 1922 – 5 November 1985

Sara Woods is a pseudonym of Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd. She was a British mystery writer, who also used the pen names of Anne Burton, Mary Challis, and Margaret Leek. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Woods was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Filey, Yorkshire. During World War II, Woods worked in a bank and as a solicitor's clerk in London, where she gained much of the information later used in her novels. She married Anthony George Bowen-Judd on 25 April 1946, and with him ran a pig breeding farm from 1948 to 1954. In 1957 they moved to Nova Scotia in Canada. There she worked as registrar for St. Mary's University until 1964. In 1961 she wrote her first novel, *Bloody Instructi…