Behold, Here's Poison
When Gregory Matthews, patriarch of the Poplars is found dead one morning, imperious Aunt Harriet blames it on the roast duck he ate for supper. But a post-mortem determines the cause of death as murder by poison. It falls to Superintendent Hannasyde to sift through all the secrets and lies among...
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When Gregory Matthews, patriarch of the Poplars is found dead one morning, imperious Aunt Harriet blames it on the roast duck he ate for supper. But a post-mortem determines the cause of death as murder by poison. It falls to Superintendent Hannasyde to sift through all the secrets and lies among the bitter, quarrelsome family.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781402217982 (1402217986)
Publish date: 2009-02-01
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: Inspector Hannasyde (#2)
Can we say "obstruction of justice", thought you could. Today this would have got dealt with in a different way (I'd kinda like Randall to meet Peter Grant for a few rounds of debate). Still this is from a different time and a different way of policing. No-one really misses Dear Old Uncle Gregory wh...
I finished this a week ago so I'm going to have to dredge my memory for things to say about it. Overall I found it an enjoyable mystery although I guessed some aspects of the solution to the murder. I didn't know that I was right, of course, and the motivations were a bit of a mystery, but it's al...
Georgette Heyer: Behold, Here's Poison(Narrator: Ulli Birvé) The first Georgette Heyer mysteries I read were her Inspector Hemingway books, which in a way meant I was starting from the wrong end, as Hemingway progressed to the rank of inspector from having been the lead investigator's sergeant in th...
Georgette Heyer: Behold, Here's Poison(Narrator: Ulli Birvé) The first Georgette Heyer mysteries I read were her Inspector Hemingway books, which in a way meant I was starting from the wrong end, as Hemingway progressed to the rank of inspector from having been the lead investigator's sergeant in th...
I had been sort of planning to use this one for the free square, but since OBD called "cozy mystery" this morning, and nothing could be cozier than this mystery, I can't resist actually filling a square! I do prefer Heyer's regency romances to her mysteries. This one was more enjoyable than the ot...