Envious Casca [Import] [Paperback]

Georgette Heyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 24, 2006

It is no ordinary Christmas at Lexham Manor. Six holiday guests find themselves the suspects of a murder enquiry when the old Scrooge, Nathaniel Herriad, who owns the substantial estate, is found stabbed in the back. For Inspector Hemingway of Scotland Yard, ‘tis the season to find whodunit but it’s a real conundrum how any of the suspects could have entered the locked room to commit this foul deed in the first place.

Editorial Reviews

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'Good stuff' -- Saturday Review

'Pungent dialogue and A1 characterisation' -- Time Magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Georgette Heyer who wrote over fifty novels died in 1974.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Arrow (October 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0099493667
• ISBN-13: 978-0099493662
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,539,046 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

Customer Reviews

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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Family Feuds???, April 16, 1999

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Barbara E. Brewer (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Envious Casca (Hardcover)

To my way of thinking this is Georgette Heyers best mystery. I am not usually a mystery reader but I like her gothic romances and I thought I would try this one. She has such a good sense of humor and this book did not disappoint me. I have since read all of her mysterys that I could find. In this one Heyer takes one crabby bachelor uncle, one sweetness and light uncle, an actress niece and her long-haired playwrite, a sarcastic nephew and his blond bimbo fiance, one friend of the family, one business partner, and mixes them with a Christmas party. Out comes an impossible murder. I never figured out "who done it" until the very end. Heyers Inspector Hemingway is a great character and I would know him in a minute if I met him. Georgette Heyer at her best, it's well worth the reading if you can find it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great mystery and funny characters, December 17, 2005

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Kelli (Mountain View, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Envious Casca (Paperback)

This was a really good book. The mystery had me stumped for a long time, but made perfect sense at the end. I hate it when the secret killer's movements and motive are just tacked on at the end as a twist. The characters were funny and Detective Hemingway was in his prime. Also, I read the book at Christmas and it takes place at a Christmas party gone bad, which made my own family problems seem much funnier.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deck the halls for a Yuletide murder, July 24, 2010

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Sunny Leap - See all my reviews

This review is from: Envious Casca (Paperback)

Lexham Manor appears to be the scene of a typical family Christmas party. A good host, however, would not have gathered such an ill-assorted collection of participants. Nathaniel Herriard is the curmudgeonly owner. His endlessly affable brother Joseph is a former actor; Joseph's wife Maud cares only for cards and reading biographies. There's a malicious nephew and his vacuous fiancée, a melodramatic niece and her gauche boyfriend who is an aspiring playwright. Add to the cast a disagreeable business partner, a distant cousin who is a "good sort", and a haughty butler. Murder the wealthy owner in a locked room. The problem then becomes, not only figuring out how the murder was committed, but sorting out the suspects who nearly all have some reason for murdering someone whom anyone would want to murder. The endless sniping was darkly amusing and the revelation surprising but eminently suitable.