Death in the Stocks (by Georgette Heyer)

Re-reading my Georgette Heyer crime fiction novels in the order of publication, I’ve just finished ‘Death in the Stocks’. First published in 1935, this is the first of her books to feature the wonderful Inspector Hannasyde of Scotland Yard. I first read it (aloud to my teenage sons) back in 2003, but had quite forgotten that I re-read it as recently as 2017. That might explain why I did recall some of the story, and had no trouble working out the protagonist. 

But Heyer’s novels, as with her his...