Book description
It is a complete mystery why anyone would choose to murder the trusted
old butler of Norton Manor. Barrister turned amateur detective, Frank
Amberley, has reason to suspect that the shooting involves the nervy
young lady discovered at the scene of the crime, a snooping gentleman in
the halls of Greythorne and then a second dead body. A dramatic tale of
upstairs, downstairs and family secrets.
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
