In a certain rambling country house packed with bitter, quarrelling relatives, Gregory Matthews, the head of the caboodle, is found dead. Imperious Aunt Harriet blames it on the roast duck he ate for supper - she warned him about his blood pressure! But the more likely cause seems to be nicotine poisoning. It falls on the broad shoulders of Superintendent Hannasyde to solve another deadly enigma.
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel, "The Black Moth," published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.
