About this ebook
Georgette Heyer's brilliant and highly acclaimed series of detective novels
When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study, everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well-liked and respected, so who would have a motive for killing him?
Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who, with consummate skill, begins to uncover the complexities of Fletcher's life. It seems the real Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be. There is, in fact, no shortage of people who wanted him dead.
Then, a second murder is committed, with striking similarities to the first, giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case.
When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study, everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well-liked and respected, so who would have a motive for killing him?
Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who, with consummate skill, begins to uncover the complexities of Fletcher's life. It seems the real Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be. There is, in fact, no shortage of people who wanted him dead.
Then, a second murder is committed, with striking similarities to the first, giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case.
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3.8
8 reviews
Janet B
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March 31, 2019
When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study, everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well-liked and respected until Superintendent Hannasyde who, with consummate skill, begins to uncover the complexities of Fletcher's life & it seems the real Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be. There is, in fact, no shortage of people who wanted him dead. Then, a second murder is committed, with striking similarities to the first, giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case. This book was written in the 1930's & as with all of the author’s murder mysteries is very evocative of the time. I love the mix of sleuthing & humour & feel that she definitely had ner tongue in her cheek at times. The characters have depth but apart from the lovely Hannasyde I didn't like any but then I wasn't supposed to, so job done! The ‘perp' wasn't hard to discover but I enjoyed how the case was solved. My honest review is for a special copy I voluntarily read
roy gregory
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October 12, 2015
Very well plotted.
About the author
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.
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