Detection Unlimited
Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his head. Everybody in the village is ready to tell Chief Inspector Hemingway who did it. Could the murderer have been the dead man's niece? Or perhaps it was the other town solicitor? The couple at the farm had a...
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Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his head. Everybody in the village is ready to tell Chief Inspector Hemingway who did it. Could the murderer have been the dead man's niece? Or perhaps it was the other town solicitor? The couple at the farm had a guilty secret-what was it? And why is it someone else actually wants to be the prime suspect? Add to this the fact that Warrenby was blackmailing someone, and Hemingway has his work cut out for him.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781402218057
Publish date: 2010-09-01
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
It felt like forever until it was concluded.
Detection Unlimited was the last of Heyer's mysteries. So far, it's actually the only one I've read because my mother happened to have her original copy and passed it along to me. As I learned in The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge, her husband (who left his career as a mining e...
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When I first read them, I loved all of Heyer's detective stories. I particularly liked her incidental romances and, of course, Hemingway. Now that I've read about a third of her romances, the detective stories aren't as fab. Perspective: not always welcome! I miss liking them very much.
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