Book description
A moonlit night. A sleeping village. And an unaccountable murder...
An English bobbie returning from night patrol finds a corpse in
evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He identifies
the body immediately. Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and
narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The
Vereker family are corrupt and eccentric -and hardly cooperative ...
It's another case for the resourceful Superintendent Hannasyde, who
sets off on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his consummate
powers of detection are tested to their limits...
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.
Georgette Heyer's mystery novels:
April 2006
Death in the Stocks - 0099493624; Behold, Here's Poison
- 0099493640; They Found Him Dead - 0099493632; A Blunt
Instrument - 0099493659
September 2006
Envious Casca - 0099493667; Detection Unlimited -
0099493748; Duplicate Death - 0099493756; No Wind of
Blame - 0099493675
January 2007
Penhallow - 0099493683; Footsteps in the Dark -
0099493691; Why Shoot a Butler? - 0099493721; The Unfinished
Clue - 009949373X
