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Death in the Stocks

Published
1935
Language
English

Synopsis

A gentleman in evening dress is found stabbed and left in the village stocks: Arnold Vereker, whose wealth and unpleasant temper have left his siblings both his heirs and his obvious suspects. Superintendent Hannasyde investigates a family of eccentrics, none of whom seem especially sorry he's dead. Published in the UK as Death in the Stocks and in the US as Merely Murder, this is the first of Heyer's Hannasyde & Hemingway mysteries.

About the author

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Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer was born on 16 August 1902 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. She was the eldest child of Sylvia Watkins and George Heyer; her brother George Boris was born four years later, and her brother Frank nine years later. During her childhood, the family lived also in Paris, France, but they returned to England before World War I. During the war, her father served as a requisitions officer for the British Army in France. Her father encouraged her to read, he never forbade her any book....