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  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409049050
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

The Unfinished Clue




Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time

'Pure joy from start to finish' Dorothy L Sayers
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The stabbing of irascible General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith fails to stir up grief in anyone - least of all his family, which is no wonder considering the way he had treated them all during the fateful weekend. He had disinherited his son, humiliated his wife, refused to help his financially stricken nephew and made no secret of his loathing for his son's fiancée, a cabaret dancer.

As Inspector Harding investigates, he must pick his way through a mass of familial discontent to find the culprit - and find much more besides ...

  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409049050
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320

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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Praise for The Unfinished Clue

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