Sarah Caudwell
Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn (27 May 1939 – 28 Jan2000), a British barrister and writer of detective stories. She is best known for a series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999. On coming down from Oxford she
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Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn (27 May 1939 – 28 Jan2000), a British barrister and writer of detective stories. She is best known for a series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999. On coming down from Oxford she lectured on Law at the University College of Wales. She collaborated on crime short stories with Michael Z. Lewin and with Lawrence Block for The Perfect Murder. She also wrote a play, The Madman’s Advocate Caudwell was nominated for the Best Novel award at the 1986 Anthony awards for The Shortest Way to Hades and won the 1990 award for The Sirens Sang of Murder in the same category.
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