Duplicate Death

Informationen zum Autor Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth , published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John . Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one. Klappentext A civilised game of Duplicate Bridge ends in a double murder in which both victims were strangled with a tourniquet of picture wire. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand? The odds of solving this crime are stacked up against Inspector Hemingway. Fortunately, this first-rate detective doesn't miss a trick. Zusammenfassung A civilised game of Duplicate Bridge ends in a double murder in which both victims were strangled with a tourniquet of picture wire. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand? The odds of solving this crime are stacked up against Inspector Hemingway. Fortunately, this first-rate detective doesn't miss a trick.

Product details

• Authors: Georgette Heyer, Georgette (Author) Heyer
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.09.2006
• EAN: 9780099493754
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949375-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; England, FICTION / Crime, 20th Century, Classic crime, c 1950 to c 1959, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Classic crime and mystery fiction