Death in the Stocks

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.