Author:
Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: Mar 2009
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
Retail Price: $17.99
Pages: 336
A Georgette Heyer mystery reminiscent of Agatha Christie, in which every guest is a suspect, and none has an alibi.
At first glance, it should have been a lovely English country-house weekend party. But it's the guestlist from hell, and the host, Sir Arthur Billington-Smith, is an abusive wretch who everyone at the party Turns out to have a reason to hate. When he's found in his study, stabbed to death and clutching a torn check in his hand, the unhappy guests and estranged family find themselves under the scrutiny of Scotland Yard's cool-headed Inspector Harding.
In addition to romance and historical fiction, Georgette Heyer wrote a dozen classic mysteries. This charming English country-house mystery features a...
Although P.D. James has made it to the top of American bestseller lists, she's not the only talented female writer of British mysteries who is popular...
Some objects just cry out to be stolen, and an obliging ring of international thieves stands ready to heed the cry. Their current target is the Gyrth...
Experience Georgette Heyer's sparkling dialogue in one of her most popular mysteries. IIt's no ordinary morning at the Poplars - the master is found...
The superlatively analytical Inspector Hemingway is confronted by a murder that seems impossible—no one was near the murder weapon at the time the...
Murder is the backdrop to the personal dramas played out in this follow-up to the Edgar-nominated DREAMING OF THE BONES. As Scotland Yard detectives...
Trudi Adamson has lived her life in fear - of strangers, of asking questions, of angering her husband, of leaving the house. When her husband dies in...
A bobby on his night rounds discovers a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. Inspector Hannasyde is called in, but...
They Found Him Dead The day after his sixtieth birthday celebration, an event marked by dissension among his family and houseguests, Silas Kane's body...