Book description
The stabbing of irascible General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith fails to
stir up grief in anyone - least of all his family, which is no wonder
considering the way he had treated them all during the fateful weekend.
He had disinherited his son, humiliated his wife, refused to help his
financially stricken nephew and made no secret of his loathing for his
son's fiancée, a cabaret dancer. Inspector Harding picks his way
through a mass of familial discontent to find the culprit - and find
much more besides.
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
