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4.5★
Heyer's final detective novel, first published in 1953. She enjoyed writing them & working with her husband (who supplied a lot of the plots & legal knowledge) but her continual problems with the British taxation system (at least partially her & her husband's own fault) meant she needed to write more of her wonderful Regency romances.
Were her readers the winners? The 1950s are when GH wrote some of her finest Regencies -Sylvester, Cotillion, Venetia, The Unknown Ajax but I just love Chief In ...more
Heyer's final detective novel, first published in 1953. She enjoyed writing them & working with her husband (who supplied a lot of the plots & legal knowledge) but her continual problems with the British taxation system (at least partially her & her husband's own fault) meant she needed to write more of her wonderful Regency romances.
Were her readers the winners? The 1950s are when GH wrote some of her finest Regencies -Sylvester, Cotillion, Venetia, The Unknown Ajax but I just love Chief In ...more
Sadly this is the last detective story that GH wrote.
Hemingway (now a Chief Inspector) sparkles throughout & this book worth reading for his dialogue alone.
I have one leg longer than the other myself & I was wondering why Gavin simply didn't wear a lift in his shoe? Surely they would have been available in the 50s?
But a minor quibble for a very enjoyable book. ...more
Hemingway (now a Chief Inspector) sparkles throughout & this book worth reading for his dialogue alone.
I have one leg longer than the other myself & I was wondering why Gavin simply didn't wear a lift in his shoe? Surely they would have been available in the 50s?
But a minor quibble for a very enjoyable book. ...more
entertaining mystery. I do wish that Heyer didn't always feel obliged to build a romance into her mysteries, though
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This is the last of Heyer's detective series. I liked it but not as much as some of the earlier ones. It starts with a tennis party, where most of the neighbours have been invited. This tells us of lots of the village occupants, making me feel I really needed a list of who was who, it also describes the lay out of the village, and although I got a bit lost at first, I managed to work it all out. When the party finally finished, a man is found dead, having been shot whilst sitting on a bench in h
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Very good mystery with lots of suspects and a few twists. Hemmingway is in fine form and has a fun give and take relationship with his second in command. There is a wonderful humorous lady who breeds Pekes and is running out of names starting with 'U'. She has very definite ideas regarding who did the murder. I am sorry this is Heyer's last mystery.
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