Annal:1990 Anthony Award for Best Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Anthony Award in the year 1990. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1990 Anthony-Novel winner
- 1989 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.4
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!
