Dead Against the Lawyers

Radwick Holter is a successful QC and member of the Hertonhurst Bar. Exceedingly proud of the professional reputation he has worked tirelessly to succeed, even at the cost of estranging himself from his family who he despises for their lack of ambition.

Envied for his success and for Charlotte, his beautiful wife much younger than himself, Holter is a fifty-eight year old man driven by money and lust.

Living happily in a large and beautiful home in the countryside, he lives a simple life, largely fulfilled by his wife, his work and his Bentley.

Except strangely, for such a fierce and intuitive barrister, he is more naïve than he realises when it comes to creatures of the opposite sex and chooses to ignore the whispers in chambers about the unsuitability of his marriage.

When Holter arrives at work one morning to find a dead body in his own office, his world is torn apart.

The discovery is complicated when he realises the door to his collection of macabre murder weapons, souvenirs from old cases, is open, and there is an ominous trail of blood.

Detective Inspector Brock has no doubt that the solicitor was murdered and when a search proves that the locks to chambers have not been forced, things look bleak for those who cannot account for their movements the night before.

Anonymous letters, professional rivalries and a scandalous charge mean Holter is on trial for murder and must conduct his own defence — will he be successful? Is he guilty?

Dead Against the Lawyers is an intriguing mystery that will shock, surprise and delight readers in equal measure.

Roderic Jeffries was born in London in 1926 and went to sea in 1943. Six years later he left that trade to become a lawyer. He again changed profession to become a writer. Since 1951, he has written over one hundred and sixty novels under his own name and several other pseudonyms. He began his career by writing books featuring his father’s character, Blackshirt, a popular detective whose adventures have appeared in print for many decades. In time Jeffries branched out and began to write a variety of mystery novels under his own name and several pen names, including Peter Alding and Jeffrey Ashford.

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