Detection Unlimited

A very clever mystery, but not one of my favourites, although young Charles and Abbey made a cute couple. I did admire the lengths to which the murderer went to evade suspicion, but there was just too much dissection of the murder and all the possible motives and suspects.......more

This is the third of the series featuring Chief Inspector Hemingway that I’ve read, though it is the fourth in the series/subseries. Once again in a classic setting—a small English village—this one opens one summer evening as many of the residents are heading to a tennis party thrown by Mrs Haswell.......more

Comparing to the previous ones I have read (Why Shoot a Butler?, Behold, Here's Poison, They Found Him Dead, A Blunt Instrument, No Wind of Blame, Duplicate Death, and Penhallow), This novel is my favorite so far. Georgette Heyer knows how to keep a reader in the dark (narrative trick) until the fin......more

Mmkay. This is either a very impressed four stars or a very angry two stars. Hemingway and Harbottle are a delightful detective team to follow, Hemingway with his “flair” and his “psychology” and Harbottle with his grim ordinary straight-laced good sense. And Heyer’s witty narration and deft character......more

I gather I'm reading this somewhat out of order, in that there are several other books featuring the same detective and this is the last of them (and the last of Georgette Heyer's mysteries as a whole, I believe?). I blame the fact that they're not numbered in any way. Not that I think it much matte......more