Book description
The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems, at
first, to be by natural causes. He was elderly after all. But
Penhallow wasn't well liked. He had ruled over his estate with an iron
will and a sharp tongue. He had played one relative off against
another. He was so bad tempered and mean that both his servants and
his family hated him.
It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death, Penhallow
was, in fact, murdered. Poisoned. With his family gathered to
celebrate his birthday, and servants that both feared and despised
him, there are more than a dozen prime suspects. But which one of them
turned hatred into murder?
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
