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 *
‘Heyer’s characters and dialogue are an abiding delight to me … I have seldom met people to whom I have taken so violent a fancy from the word “Go”’ * Dorothy L. Sayers *
‘The wittiest of detective writers’ * Daily Mail *
Death in the Stocks is that rare and refreshing thing - a clever problem stated, developed and finally solved in terms of character * The Times *
Miss Heyer’s characters act and speak with an ease that is as refreshing as it is rare in the ordinary mystery novel * Times Literary Supplement *

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 and the title ‘Queen of Crime.’ Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

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