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Death in the stocks, Georgette Heyer

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Death in the stocks, Georgette Heyer

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Death in the stocks

Responsibility statement

Georgette Heyer

Series statement

Inspector Hannasyde mystery, bk. 1

Summary

An English bobby returning from night patrol spots a corpse in the moonlight, wearing evening dress and locked in the stocks on the village green. The body is identified as wealthy Arnold Vereker, the occasional inhabitant of a nearby cottage. He was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt, eccentric - and hardly cooperative... It's another case for the resourceful Superintendent Hannasyde, who, aided by the family's solicitor and amateur sleuth Giles Carrington, sets off on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his consummate powers of detection are tested to their limits..

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