Someone is killing eminent lawyers Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned toinvestigate discreetly.Queens Inn is Londons youngest and most fashionableInn of Court... » 

Someone is killing eminent lawyers Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned toinvestigate discreetly.Queens Inn is Londons youngest and most fashionableInn of Court. During a feast on February 29 1902 senior barrister AlexanderDauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon afterhis friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead and Lord Francis Powerscourt issummoned to discreetly investigate the matter of the murdered barristers. Hisinquiries take him into the heart of legal London where the wills of the deadcan reveal the crimes of the living. It takes him to the center of a troubledmarriage where lack of children imperils everything. And it takes him to Calnea mysterious house in the country where the glorious past is boarded up and thetreasures of generations hide beneath the dustsheets.There are manysuspects a jealous wife a mistress fearful of being jilted a work colleaguebeaten to the senior role in the Inn and a cuckolded husband who writes booksabout poisons. Powerscourt himself is put in grave danger before he finallysolves the mystery of Death Called to the Bar. «