by Georgette Heyer
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...
Contrary to what this cover leads one to expect, there are no vampish women or costume parties in this mystery, just an unpleasant extended family who lead boring lives (and deaths -- these are about the most boring murders ever) and eat food that is bad even for the English.
It's true - Heyer's mysteries are never quite as mysterious as they should be. I was fairly certain who had committed the crime by the second chapter, and my conclusion proved correct.But never mind - I wasn't in for the mystery. The key is to not see it as anything other than a charming 1930s com...
I liked the earlier Heyer mysteries I've read much more than this one. My lack of enthusiasm is in some part due to the writing but also due to the very poor audio book version I listened to. The reader made unlikeable characters even more so. Indeed, his rendition of Randall made him so very unlike...
Enjoyable, well written, English whodunit, with some lovely plot twists, dry humour and a little old-fashioned romance along the way. I really feel that Heyer's mysteries are terribly underrated.
So far I've determined that Miss Heyer has a type and he's generally very well dressed. I read this years and years ago but didn't recollect it until the method of murder was revealed. I expect if you like Wimsey, you'll like this. I'm a little bit over slightly wet young women, though.
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