num_pages: 288
description: In February 1902, a feast is held at the Inns of Court, during which senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses and dies. When a second barrister is shot dead shortly after, Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to conduct a discreet investigation. His inquiries take him to the heart of legal London, where the wills of the dead can reveal the crimes of the living, and he discovers a troubled marriage, seemingly broken by the lack of children. The trail leads on, first to a grand country house, mysteriously boarded up, its past sealed within, then to a growing list of suspects including a jealous wife, a mistress fearful of being jilted, and a cuckolded husband who writes books about poisons. Powerscourt eventually finds that he too is now standing in the path of danger.
language: English
title: Death Called to the Bar
titlecomplete: Death Called to the Bar (Lord Francis Powerscourt, #5)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, British Literature, Crime, Historical, Detective, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery
ratings_count: 184
series: Lord Francis Powerscourt
publisher: Carroll & Graf