An Obscure Grave

It isn't as if Antony Maitland likes to take on hopeless cases; it's just that clients in desperate straits keep turning to him for help. This time, the suave barrister/detective is asked to defend a young man named Oliver Linwood, who has been charged with the murder of his own baby cousin. Lisa Traherne, a friend of Antony's Aunt Vera, swears that Oliver could never have done such a thing - it's not in his nature. This is scant enough proof of Oliver's innocence, and there's even more damning evidence. Due to the "accidental" death of Oliver's uncle several months ago, and now the murder of his young cousin - a boy - Oliver is next in line for the Linwood inheritance. Oliver, thought, claims not to have any interest in material things; money would provide no motive for him to murder his own cousin. Antony intuitively feels that there is some truth in what Oliver and Lisa claim. In that case, who killed baby Mark? And why? The plot becomes even more complicated when Antony learns that there have been two similar infant murders by suffocation in recent months - both since the death of Oliver's uncle. A young woman named Henrietta Vaughan whose own baby was stillborn is believed to have been driven to commit these grisly murders out of grief-inspired insanity. Antony, convinced of Henrietta's innocence as well as Oliver's, furthermore believes that the two cases are related - and dedicates all of his considerable ingenuity to uncovering the truth in this brilliant addition to Sara Wood's renowned series. Book Dust Jacket


Genre: Mystery