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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

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

Sarah Caudwell

Sarah Caudwell

Born: May 27, 1939

Died: January 28, 2000 (aged 60)

Bio: Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn, a British barrister and writer of detective stories.

Known for:

Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981)
The Shortest Way to Hades (1985)
The Sibyl in Her Grave (2000)
The Sirens Sang of Murder (1989)

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