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Death in the Stocks
- Author
- Georgette Heyer
- Narrator
- Matt Addis
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 30 September 2021
- Run Time
- 7 hours 56 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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A moonlit night. A sleeping village. And an unaccountable murder...
An English bobbie returning from night patrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He identifies the body immediately. Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt and eccentric -and hardly cooperative ...
It's another case for the resourceful Superintendent Hannasyde, who sets off on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his consummate powers of detection are tested to their limits...
© Georgette Heyer 1935 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Praise for Georgette Heyer's mystery novels:
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'We had better start ranking Heyer alongside such incomparable whodunit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey and Allingham'
San Francisco Chronicle
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'Rarely have we seen humour and mystery so perfectly blended'
New York Times
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'Sharp, clear and witty'
The New Yorker
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'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
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'The wittiest of detective writers'
Daily Mail
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Death in the Stocks is that rare and refreshing thing - a clever problem stated, developed and finally solved in terms of character
The Times
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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
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Details
- Author
- Georgette Heyer
- Narrator
- Matt Addis
- Duration
- 7 hours 56 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 September 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473595507
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Classic crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. A moonlit night. A sleeping village. And an unaccountable murder...An English bobbie returning from night patrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He identifies the body immediately. Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt and eccentric -and hardly cooperative ...It's another case for the resourceful Superintendent Hannasyde, who sets off on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his consummate powers of detection are tested to their limits...© Georgette Heyer 1935 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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