Mrs. Malory and the Only Good Lawyer
Hazel Holt

London solicitor Graham Percy has always been a trial, but Mrs. Malory’s kindhearted late husband never could turn his back on his old Oxford Acquaintance. Now Mrs. Malory has inherited the persnickety, long-winded bachelor and his interminable four-day yearly visits to her home in the scenic seaside town of Taviscombe. But this year is different. Graham Percy’s stay is abruptly cut short…when someone stabs him most fatally.

In death Graham Percy turns out to be anything but dull. Mrs. Malory discovers that although he was shockingly incompetent at law, he was brilliant at acquiring other people’s secrets. Soon she is snooping into the very private lives of a seemingly proper professor of Classics; an author whose goat-raising wife could also have bats in the belfry; and a wheelchair-bound actor whose signature role is the great betrayer lago.

When Mrs. Malory unearths a motive rooted in a tragic tale of doomed love, she finds herself wrestling with her own conscience. For if the old axiom is true that the only good lawyer is a dead lawyer. How do you unmask a killer who nobody wants found?

Signet (Mystery), December 1998
256 pages ISBN: 0451192648
Paperback (reprint)
$5.99

Also by Hazel Holt:
Mrs. Malory and A Time To Die, December 2008
Mrs. Malory and A Death In the Family, November 2006
Mrs. Malory And No Cure for Death, October 2005
Mrs. Mallory and the Silent Killer, March 2004
Mrs. Malory and Death in Practice, July 2003
Mrs. Malory and Death By Water, January 2003
Mrs. Malory and the Delay of Execution, June 2002
And the Dying is Easy, June 2001
Mrs. Malory and the Lilies That Fester, June 2001
Mrs. Malory and the Fatal Legacy, April 2000
Mrs. Malory Death Among Friends, June 1999
Mrs. Malory: Detective in Residence, December 1998
Mrs. Malory Death of a Dean, December 1997
Mrs. Malory Wonders Why, November 1996
Mrs. Malory’s Shortest Journey, June 1995
Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murder, July 1994
Mrs. Malory Investigates, July 1994

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