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It was a hot June evening in the village of Thornden, the Hasells celebrate a tennis party at the Cedars, their mansion. The young Haswell had just motored the lovely Abby Dearham back from social event of the week. Nearly everyone of the village uppercrust had come to the party--the…
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With detailed description and her characteristic wit, Georgette Heyer transports her readers to the English village of Thornden and the various characters who inhabit it, each painted in vivid yet realistic colours and engaging her readers' whole interest, if not necessarily our sympathy. The murder mystery is familiar (who shot the most unpopular man in the village?) but nonetheless baffling, and the slow, painstaking and often frustrating unravelling of the mystery by Heyer's Chief Inspector Hemmingway (a familiar figure from her earlier detective novels) makes for a most satisfactory absorbing read. As each of the respectable inhabitants of the village…
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