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Detection Unlimited (Inspector Hemingway, Bk 4)
Detection Unlimited - Inspector Hemingway, Bk 4
Author: Georgette Heyer
Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his brain. He is discovered by his anxious niece Mavis, who is just one of the ten people in the village in the running for chief suspect, having just cause to dislike Warrenby intensely. Only Chief Inspector Hemingway can uncover which of the ten has turned hatre...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780755108862
ISBN-10: 0755108868
Publication Date: 1/1/2001
Pages: 322
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Publisher: House of Stratus
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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In her last book, we had to wait forever before the victim got knocked off. Thank God in this one he gets killed early on so we're not kept waiting. And think God too the dead man is a lawyer, and an unpopular one at that. As Shakespeare has Dick the Butcher say in one of his plays, "First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." It's one of the reasons I became an entomologist. How many novels can you think of where the villain is an evil entomologist?

And once again, Heyer parades out a slew of suspects. Inspector Hemingway patiently crosses them off his list and finally arrests the one we should have known early on.


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