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Book SynopsisIf you love Bridgerton, you''ll love Georgette Heyer!
''The greatest writer who ever lived'' Antonia Fraser
''[My] generation''s Julia Quinn'' Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton
''One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer''s books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen''s'' Joanne Harris
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Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time.
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. Pois
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Praise for Georgette Heyer's mystery novels:
'We had better start ranking Heyer alongside such incomparable whodunit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey and Allingham' * San Francisco Chronicle *
'Rarely have we seen humour and mystery so perfectly blended' * New York Times *
'Sharp, clear and witty' * The New Yorker *
'Heyer's characters and dialogue are an abiding delight to me ... I have seldom met people to whom I have taken so violent a fancy from the word "Go"' * Dorothy L. Sayers *
