Book description
When Gregory Matthews, patriarch of the Poplars is found dead one
morning, imperious Aunt Harriet blames it on the roast duck he ate for
supper. After all, she had warned him about his blood pressure. But a
post-mortem determines that the cause of death is much more sinister.
Murder. By poison.
Suspicion falls immediately amongst his bitter, quarrelsome family.
Each has a motive; each, opportunity. It falls to Superintendent
Hannasyde to sift through all the secrets and lies and discover just
who killed Gregory Matthews, before the killer strikes again...
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.
