Duplicate Death

Download or read book Duplicate Death written by Georgette Heyer and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double the murder means double the stakes in this Golden Age mystery from Georgette Heyer Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a double murder. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand? Things become even more complicated when the fiancée of the inspector's young friend Timothy Kane becomes Hemingway's prime suspect. Kane is determined to prove the lady's innocence—but when he begins digging into her past, he finds it's more than a little bit shady... Classic country house mystery, perfect for readers of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers! "Ranks alongside such incomparable whodunit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey, and Allingham." —San Francisco Chronicle "The wittiest of detective story writers."—Daily Mail