The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell is a Hilary Tamar mystery, the third in the series of four books. I have read The Sibyl in Her Grave, which is the fourth, so I'm going about this backwards. There will be no more, as the author died of cancer in 2000 at the age of 60.
This book won the Anthony Award in 1990.
from the back cover:
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!
The story is often advanced through letters written from one character to another and the books have a dry humor that I find appealing.
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