Death Called to the Bar - A Murder Mystery Featuring Lord Francis Powerscourt

London: Constable, 2006. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 247 pages. In 1902, Queen's Inn is the youngest and most fashionable of London's Inns of Court. On 28th February, at a Queen's feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon afterwards, his friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to resolve the matter of the murdered barristers. The investigation takes him into the heart of legal London where the wills of the dead reveal the crimes of the living. It takes him to the heart of a troubled marriage where the lack of children imperils everything. And it takes him to Calne, a mysterious house in the country where the past is boarded up and the treasures of generations lie hidden beneath dustsheets. Powerscourt, with a list of suspects that includes a jelous wife, a mistress fearful of being jilted, a work colleague beaten to the senior role in the Inn and a cuckolded husband who writes books about poisons, pursues the murderer through an increasingly dangerous spiral of events. L. First. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.