Sarah Caudwell (?--2000)

A mystery writer of the playful variety. Her first book Thus was Adonis Murdered was fun, but she never grew after that.

Works

1. Caudwell, S. 1981 Thus was Adonis Murdered (New York: Penguin Books)
   This is one of those humorous mysteries. But I confess to an affection for wordplay, her specialty---but can she cut it out with the Scholarship. She's at the Chancery Bar which deals with taxes: murder and taxes or is that death and taxes: either way a certainty. The book has an odd historical context: the 1960's and 1970's were dying insipidly and the traditional world was already virtually extinct, but the modern age of AIDS, ubiquitous computers, post-Cold War, clones, and the Web were still beyond the horizon. It's not an age we'd particularly want to revisit---of course, it's when I was a young adult.

   All of her books were in the same time frame with ageless characters including the insufferable narrator Professor Hilary: man, woman centaur?