They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer - ISBN: 9780099493631
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Family secrets and deadly inheritance: a killer hides in plain sight.

They Found Him Dead

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    1 June 2006

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Summary

Georgette Heyer’s brilliant and highly acclaimed series of detective novels, now in a handsome new package

The sixtieth birthday party of Silas Kane was marred by argument and dissension amongst his family. And then, the morning after the celebrations, Kane is found dead at the foot of a cliff. The theory that Silas accidentally lost his way in the fog is confirmed when the coroner returns a verdict of death by misadventure.

But then Kane’s nephew and heir is murdered and thre…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099493631
ISBN-10:0099493632
Author:Georgette Heyer
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:1 June 2006
Weight:224g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 22mm
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Critics Review

Praise for Georgette Heyer’s mystery novels:

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 *

About The Author

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

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