If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser '[My] generation's Julia Quinn' Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton 'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris _____________ Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time. The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems, at first, to be by natural ...
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If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser '[My] generation's Julia Quinn' Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton 'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris _____________ Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time. 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? _____________ Readers love Penhallow . . . ***** 'Full of fascinating characters and plenty of vivid description - this one surprised me and actually made me cry!' ***** 'Penhallow is one of my favourite Georgette Heyer novels.' ***** 'A real tour-de-force.' ***** 'Pure genius!' ***** 'Second read, another 5 stars. An original and highly suspenseful mystery, nothing like anything else I have ever read.'
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New. 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. It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death, Penhallow was, in fact, murdered, and poisoned. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 318. 2007. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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I normally love Georgette Heyer, for her humor, historical accuracy, fun plots, endearing characters, bubbly style. But I have to say that Penhallow was not only a disappointment from start to finish, it was downright depressing. I could even say, appalling. One of the rare novels I couldn't bring myself to give even to a library sale, but tossed. Emotional cruelty abounds, not a likeable character among them, they're all either mean or weak, and the resolution of the story is weak as well. Thoroughly unsatisfying.
