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Duplicate Death (Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway, #7)

Georgette Heyer

Start date: February 15, 2024

Finish date: March 5, 2024

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Jul 09, 2020 Lady Wesley rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: listened, aud-rev, mystery-golden-age-or-similar

This may be my favorite Heyer mystery. It is such fun to find Terrible Timothy all grown up. And the cast of characters is varied and fun. Even the unlikeable ones.

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Feb 14, 2017 Hannah rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller, books-i-disliked, cals-library, libraries-2017, ebooks-2017, a-to-z-2017, 2017-challenge

This book just wasn't my cup of tea. First, it's about 100 pages until we get to the crime and the interesting Inspector Hemingway enters the scene. Before that, the only interesting people are the Kanes and Beulah, and we don't see enough of them. Instead, we are treated to 1950s high society: gambling, parties, cursing, jealousies, and bad attitudes.

I got to where I simply couldn't take any more of the very strong language (not shy of the strongest allowed in society in those days, with b* be ...more

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Apr 18, 2013 Jennifer Kloester rated it really liked it

Shelves: georgette-heyer, murder-mysteries, escape-reading, 2021

I hadn't read this Georgette Heyer detective novel for ages but whizzed through it yesterday. It's sort of a sequel to her 1937 novel, The Found Him Dead, as it picks up the story of Timothy Harte - "Terrible Timothy" in the earlier book - and drops him into the new story thriteen years later. Timothy is now 27 and quite grown up. His half-brother, Jim Kane, who featured in the first novel has a lovely role in the opening chapter and we catch up on his life with Patricia, who was the romantic le ...more

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Oct 13, 2017 John Frankham rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime-detective

Another smashing Georgette Heyer whodunnit, from 1951. Not as good as the earlier, more action-orientated ones, but a good mystery, with a lovely topping and tailing. Witty and well-written.

The GR blurb:

'An elegant card party turns deadly...
Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a double murder. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand? Things become even more complicated when the fiancée of the i ...more

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Apr 03, 2019 Jill rated it really liked it

Shelves: georgette-heyer

This turned out to be a pretty good mystery,after a slowish start. The "scottish banter" did get to really irritate me towards the end though. ...more

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Feb 22, 2019 Tania rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

I didn't enjoy this as much as other Heyer mysteries I've read, but it was still enjoyable. A proper review will follow.

***Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book^^^ ...more

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Nov 27, 2016 Damaskcat rated it it was amazing

A bridge party results in the death of Dan Seaton-Carew who turns out to have been an extremely unpleasant character. It will be fairly obvious to the modern reader that the victim was involved in the drugs trade though it would not have been as obvious to a reader in the 1950s. Mrs Haddington - in whose house the murder is committed - is nasty to her staff and her friends alike. Her daughter Cynthia is a silly empty headed socialite who her mother is trying to marry off to the highest bidder to ...more

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Apr 25, 2021 Andréa marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: netgalley-edelweiss, digital, arc, mystery-thriller-crime, classics, british-isles

Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.

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Jul 05, 2016 Elinor rated it it was amazing

Shelves: polar

J'ai passé un très très bon moment avec ce petit roman ! Un mystère comme je les aime, une enquête menée exactement au bon rythme et de la bonne façon pour moi... Seuls points noirs, j'ai été un peu perdue pendant le premier chapitre (mais peut-être est-ce dû au fait que ce n'est pas le première tome de la série...), et je n'ai pas énormément apprécié le traitement du personnage gay... En dehors de ça, un très très bon livre ! Je lirai les autres policiers de Georgette Heyer. ...more

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Jan 26, 2018 Sandy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-unl-read, mystery-detective-grp, rread-2024, mystery-classic, rread-2019, rread-2018

I have added a star after my third read of this book. Heyer's characters are amusing and while I remember many of the plot points, the murderer is still a surprise. I loved Timothy as a child in an earlier book and he has turned out well. ...more

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