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They Found Him Dead (Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway, #3)

Georgette Heyer

Start date: July 15, 2022

Finish date: August 6, 2022

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Jul 04, 2022 Susan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Although this has not been my favourite Georgette Heyer mystery, it is still extremely interesting. It begins at the 60th birthday party of Silas Kane, whose business partner, Joseph Mansell, is keen for him to invest in a proposition in Australia. Kane is not keen and, when he goes for his evening stroll, disaster strikes and he falls and is found dead at the foot of a cliff. Next in line for inheritance is Clement Kane, whose wife, Rosemary, is unutterably idiotic. However, Clement seems to be ...more

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Dec 24, 2012 Carolien rated it really liked it

Shelves: english-mystery, 2022, 2013

One of the better ones in this series with an interesting plot and cast of characters.

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Jun 27, 2022 Jill rated it it was amazing

Shelves: georgette-heyer

This is another book where the family are all under suspicion. I think Heyer must have thought all families are dysfunctional. This family have a joint business that is doing extremely well, and has been asked to extend it by spreading out to Australia. This, however, would mean that a very substantial sum of money would have to be invested by the head of the family, Silas Kane. He feels that this would be a huge risk and has decided to not to invest the money. On his 60th birthday the family ga ...more

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Sep 21, 2021 Lady Wesley rated it it was amazing

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

Review of the audiobook narrated by Ulli Birvé.

This book is one of my favorite Heyer mysteries, primarily due to the presence of "Terrible" Timothy Harte, a precocious fourteen-year-old fan of American gangster movies who is thrilled when there are two mysterious deaths in the family. (Side note: One of my favorite Heyer Regency romances is Frederica, where the heroine has two young brothers who cause no end of problems while being adorable at the same time. Terrible Timothy is cut from the sam ...more

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Jul 14, 2022 Frances rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-series

3.5 stars. This is a fun and entertaining series of detective stories from Heyer, set at the time of writing in the 1930s. This one features a country house, questions of inheritance, a domineering matriarch, suitably annoying upper class women and in contrast a pretty and likeable and spunky ingenue, a clever detective Superintendent and his plodding sidekick sergeant, an American gangster-loving teenage boy, a foreigner in their midst-all the delicious tropes of a classic golden age mystery. T ...more

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Nov 24, 2019 Andréa rated it liked it · review of another edition

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

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

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Aug 07, 2012 Leslie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries

This is the first of two Heyer mysteries involving the Kane family (the second one is Duplicate Death) -- I love the character of "Terrible Timothy", the younger brother who wants to watch the police at work... I do prefer Duplicate Death, in which Timothy is grown up, better than this one. ...more

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