Penhallow

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Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time.

The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems, at first, to be by natural causes. He was elderly after all. But Penhallow wasn't well liked. He had ruled over his estate with an iron will and a sharp tongue. He had played one relative off against another. He was so bad tempered and mean that both his servants and his family hated him.

It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death, Penhallow was, in fact, murdered. Poisoned. With his family gathered to celebrate his birthday, and servants that both feared and despised him, there are more than a dozen prime suspects. But which one of them turned hatred into murder?

© Georgette Heyer 1943 (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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