num_pages: 274
description: Beneath a sky the colour of sapphires and the sinister moonlight, a gentleman in evening dress is discovered slumped in the stocks on the village green - he is dead. Superintendent Hannasyde's consummate powers of detection and solicitor Giles Carrington's amateur sleuthing are tested to their limits as they grapple with the Vereker family - a group of outrageously eccentric and corrupt suspects
language: English
title: Death in the Stocks
titlecomplete: Death in the Stocks (Inspectors Hannasyde and Hemingway, #1)
characters: Antonia Vereker, Kenneth Vereker, Superintendent Hannasyde, Giles Carrington
genres: Historical, Crime, British Literature, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Mystery, Romance
ratings_count: 7190
series: Inspectors Hannasyde & Hemingway
publisher: House of Stratus Ltd