Book description
When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study,
everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well-liked and
respected, so who would have a motive for killing him?
Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who, with consummate skill, begins to
uncover the complexities of Fletcher's life. It seems the real
Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be. There is, in
fact, no shortage of people who wanted him dead.
Then, a second murder is committed, with striking similarities to
the first, giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case.
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and
best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her
own. Her first novel,
The Black Moth
, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her
convalescent brother; her last was
My Lord John
. She wrote twelve detective stories, which earned her much critical
acclaim and the title 'Queen of Crime.' Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at
the age of seventy-one.
