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I'll See You in My Dreams

Book 5 of the Arthur Beauchamp Series

by William Deverell

Arthur Beauchamp, after a successful and much-lauded career at the criminal bar, is now retired to Garibaldi Island. His immediate desire is to win the Mabel Orfmeister Trophy for the Most Points in Fruits and Vegetables at the Garibaldi Island fall fair. With his crop picked and packed, Beauchamp is ready to do battle. While waiting for the judges, he can muse on his recently published biography by one Wentworth Chance. It is appropriately florid, with enough catty references to make it readable. And it takes Beauchamp back to his first big criminal case in 1962, the one, in legal terms, that “made him.”

The trial of Gabriel Swift was front-page news. Swift was the Indigenous gardener of Professor Dermot Mulligan, but he was far more than a servant. He was one of Mulligan’s stars, a brilliant mind to mentor. Arthur Beauchamp knows all about that, because he, too, was one of Mulligan’s best and brightest. When Mulligan disappears, in unusual circumstances, suspicion falls on Swift even though Mulligan’s widow insists he couldn’t have done it and much of the evidence leans toward suicide.

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Publisher: ECW Press

Date: 2021

ISBN: 9781770416482

Location: Gulf Islands, British Columbia

Sub-genres: Suspense , Humor , Legal , Rural , Indigenous , Coastal

About The Author

William Deverell is a Canadian novelist best known for his award‑winning legal crime fiction, beginning with his 1979 debut Needles and continuing through his long‑running Arthur Beauchamp series. Deverell created CBC's Street Legal, one of Canada's longest-running drama series.

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