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Penhallow
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  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099493686
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99

Penhallow

An original and suspenseful whodunnit mystery

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Paperback
1 Mar 2007
EBook
1 June 2011
Audiobook
30 Sept 2021
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Georgette Heyer's brilliant and highly acclaimed series of detective novels, now in a handsome new package

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?
  • Published: 1 March 2007
  • ISBN: 9780099493686
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Georgette Heyer

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.

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Also by Georgette Heyer

The Georgette Heyer BBC Radio Drama Collection
The Transformation of Philip Jettan
Snowdrift and Other Stories (includes three new recently discovered short stories)
A Christmas Party
Classic Voices Collection
Georgette Heyer Bundle: The Convenient Marriage/The Spanish Bride
The Unfinished Clue
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Praise for Penhallow

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

'The wittiest of detective writers'

Daily Mail