Arkenshaw Annals: And Shame the Devil (1967) and Serpent's Tooth (1971), by Sara Woods

🫧 Open on Bubbles first American edition reprinted by Dell One thing I enjoy about Sara Woods is how she varied her London settings with more than occasional jaunts to Yorkshire, taking her brilliant barrister-sleuth Antony Maitland up north to her own native ground, where she was born in 1916 and grew up into adulthood in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1967 in the detective novel And Shame the Devil , she introduced to her loyal readers the city of Arkenshaw, " one of the smoke-grimed industrial cities of the Wes