Sarah Caudwell Quotes

Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn , a British barrister and author of detective stories. Her series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999 centered on a group of young barristers practicing in Lincoln's Inn, narrated by a Hilary Tamar, a professor of medieval law whose gender is never specified, who fills the role of detective. Wikipedia

✵ 27. May 1939 – 28. January 2000

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The Sirens Sang of Murder

The Sirens Sang of Murder

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Sarah Caudwell Quotes

“The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.”

Sarah Caudwell book The Sirens Sang of Murder

Source: The Sirens Sang of Murder

Life

“… it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.”

Sarah Caudwell

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