num_pages: 337
description: Young barrsiter Michael Cantrip has skipped of to  the Channel Islands to take on a tax-law case  that's worth a fortune -- if Cantrip's tax-planning  cronies can locate the missing heir. But Cantrip  has waded in way over his head. Strange things are  happening on these mysterious, isolated isles.  Something is going bump in the night -- and bumping  off members of the legal team, one by one. Soon  Cantrip is telexing the gang at the home office for  help. And it's up to amateur investigator Hilaray  Tamar (Oxford don turned supersleuth) to get  Cantrip back to safety of his chambers -- alive!
language: English
title: The Sirens Sang of Murder
titlecomplete: The Sirens Sang of Murder
characters: Hilary Tamar
genres: Fiction, Mystery, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Humor, Cozy Mystery, Adult, Contemporary, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 3284
places: Channel Islands
series: Hilary Tamar
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Chivers Press