num_pages: 288
description: A bobby on his night rounds discovers a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. Inspector Hannasyde is called in, but sorting out the suspects proves a challenge. Anyone in the eccentric, exceedingly uncooperative Vereker family had the motive and means to kill Andrew Vereker, who seemed to have been universally disliked. One cousin allies himself with the inspector, while the victim's half-brother and sister, each of whom suspects the other, markedly try to set him off the scent. To readers' delight, the killer is so cunning (not to mention the author), that the mystery remains until the very end... PRAISE FOR GEORGETTE "Our Georgette Heyer display of the Sourcebooks reprints has been a huge success, not only to those early fans like myself, but to many new readers who appreciate her style and wit."Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC "Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."Publishers Weekly "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to."Katie Fforde
language: English
title: Death in the Stocks
titlecomplete: Death in the Stocks
characters: Antonia Vereker, Kenneth Vereker, Superintendent Hannasyde, Giles Carrington
genres: Romance, Fiction, Crime, Cozy Mystery, Historical Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Mystery
ratings_count: 7191
series: Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway
publisher: G.K. Hall & Co