Death in the Stocks

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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

  • 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

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