The Sibyl In Her Grave

Julia Larwoods Aunt Regina needs help. She and two friends pooled their modestresources and invested in equities. Now the tax man demands his due buttheyve alre... » 

Julia Larwoods Aunt Regina needs help. She and two friends pooled their modestresources and invested in equities. Now the tax man demands his due buttheyve already spent the money. How can they dig themselves out of the taxhole? Even more to the point Can the sin of capital gains trigger corporealloss?Thats one for the sibyl psychic counselor Isabella del Comino who hasoffended Aunt Regina and her friends by moving into the rectory plowing undera cherished garden and establishing an aviary of ravens. When Isabella isfound dead all clues point to death by fiscal misadventure.So Julia calls in an old friend and Oxford fellow Professor Hilary Tamar tofollow a money trail that connects Aunt Regina to what appears to be capitalfraud and capital crime. The two women couldnt have a better champion thanthe erudite Hilary as once again Sarah Caudwell sweeps us into the scene ofthe crime leaving us to ponder the greatest mystery of all Hilary him orher self. «