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Footsteps in the Dark

Georgette Heyer

Start date: November 14, 2020

Finish date: December 10, 2020

Discussion: Buddy reads

Why we're reading this: Our group includes many Georgette Heyer fans who wanted to read more of her mysteries.
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Jun 29, 2014 Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery-murder-crime-20th-century, georgette-heyer

Georgette Heyer suppressed some of her early books, presumably because she wasn't happy with them. These include Simon the Coldheart ( deadly dull) The Great Roxhythe (unintentionally very funny!) & her "contemporaries" (Helen was so terrible I feel no desire to seek out the other three!) I believe GH also suppressed this one for a time, so I approached this read with some trepidation. But I need not have worried. This book certainly isn't a masterpiece & some of the writing is very "jolly hocke ...more

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Dec 17, 2012 Leslie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries

On this reread (my 4th?), I have decided that this is really 3½ stars not 4 so I am downgrading it.

I still like this romantic suspense type mystery but the romance angle in this one is pretty slapdash. So surprising for a Heyer book too!

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Dec 07, 2020 Ruth rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: golden-age-and-vintage

This was Georgette Heyer's first murder mystery and I found it enjoyable on the whole. I did find the story dragged in places especially the sections involving the French artist Louis Duval.

It was quite a light frothy story with Gothic elements involving ghosts, secret passages and seances. It wasn't my favourite type of mystery but was entertaining. ...more

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Jan 04, 2022 Tania rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery

This was Heyer's first foray into the mystery genre, and I feel it shows. The mystery aspect takes a long time to get going, and is pretty obvious, (view spoiler). The story in itself was very enjoyable and the family much more likeable than her mystery characters usually are. ...more

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Nov 27, 2020 Sandy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-detective-grp, mystery-classic, rread-2020

An enjoyable bit of froth where the characters outshine the plot: a wise-cracking family, amusing aunt, hapless policeman, eccentric moth hunter. Throw in a spooky house with mysterious passages, a ghostly monk and skeletons falling out of the walls. What more could one ask.

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