A COUNTRY HOUSE MYSTERY PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIE

Every family has secrets, but now they are turning deadly...

On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests her innocence and Amberley believes her—at least until he gets drawn into the mystery and the evidence incriminating

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"A game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a duplicate death. Questions abound. Although both victims were strangled by the same method, does it necessarily imply the same hand? And is there any connection between victims?" --

Experience Georgette Heyer's sparkling dialogue in one of her most popular mysteries. It's no ordinary morning at the Poplars - the master is found dead in his bed and it turns out that his high blood pressure was not the cause of death. Heyer uses her attention to detail and brilliant characterizations to concoct a baffling crime for which every single member of the quarrelsome family has a motive, and none, of course, has an alibi. Heyer's sparkling...

"The slightly overripe Ermyntrude Carter had risen from the front row of the chorus to a comfortable estate in the country by courtesy of her first husband. Her single as yet unrealized ambition was to introduce her daughter, Vicky, into the best county society. She was not greatly helped in this aim by her second husband, Wally, who had a taste for low company, but Ermy's money managed to smooth most paths, and she hoped the visit of Prince Varasashvili...

What begins as an adventure soon becomes a nightmare... Locals claim it is haunted and refuse to put a single toe past the front door, but to siblings Peter, Celia, and Margaret, the Priory is nothing more than a rundown estate inherited from their late uncle-and the perfect setting for a much-needed holiday. But when a murder victim is discovered in the drafty Priory halls, the once unconcerned trio begins to fear that the ghostly rumors are true...