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Death in the Stocks
Georgette Heyer
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Description for Death in the Stocks
Paperback. An English bobbie returning from night patrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He identifies the body immediately. Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt and eccentric - and hardly cooperative. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
A moonlit night. A sleeping village. And an unaccountable murder... An English bobbie returning from night patrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He identifies the body immediately. Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt and eccentric -and hardly cooperative ... It's another case for the resourceful Superintendent Hannasyde, who sets off on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his consummate powers of detection are ... Read more
A moonlit night. A sleeping village. And an unaccountable murder... An English bobbie returning from night patrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He identifies the body immediately. Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt and eccentric -and hardly cooperative ... It's another case for the resourceful Superintendent Hannasyde, who sets off on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his consummate powers of detection are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099493624
SKU
9780099493624
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Georgette Heyer
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. She wrote twelve detective stories, which earned her much critical acclaim ... Read more
Reviews for Death in the Stocks
Praise for Georgette Heyer's mystery novels: 'We had better start ranking Heyer alongside such incomparable whodunit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey and Allingham'
San Francisco Chronicle
'Rarely have we seen humour and mystery so perfectly blended'
New York Times
'Sharp, clear and witty'
The New Yorker
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San Francisco Chronicle
'Rarely have we seen humour and mystery so perfectly blended'
New York Times
'Sharp, clear and witty'
The New Yorker
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