Double the murder means double the stakes in Georgette Heyer’s classic crime story.
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Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized card game ends in a double murder.
The two crimes appear identical, but were they carried out by the same hand?
When Timothy Harte’s young fiancé – a put-upon secretary and suspected gold digger – becomes the inspector’s prime suspect, Harte is determined to prove her innocence.
But when he starts digging into her past, he finds it’s more than a little bit shady…
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‘A fabulous, witty writer’
Stephen Fry
‘Georgette Heyer is second to none’
Sunday Times
‘A writer of great style’
The Telegraph
‘Heyer’s characters and dialogue are a delight’
Dorothy L. Sayers
