Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his brain. He is discovered by his anxious niece, Mavis, who is just one of the tne people in the village in the running for chief suspect, having just cause to dislike Warrenby intensely. Only Chief Inspector Hemingway can uncover which of the ten has turned hatred into murder.
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099493747
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 250 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 20 mm
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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