Why Shoot a Butler?
$33.35
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2007
Summary
Georgette Heyer’s brilliant and highly acclaimed series of detective novels, now in a handsome new package.
It is a complete mystery why anyone would choose to murder the trusted old butler of Norton Manor. Barrister turned amateur detective, Frank Amberley, has reason to suspect that the shooting involves the nervy young lady discovered at the scene of the crime, a snooping gentleman in the halls of Greythorne and then a second dead body. A dramatic tale of upstairs, downstairs and family secrets.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099493723 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099493721 |
| Author: | Georgette Heyer |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 21mm |
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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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