Teaser Tuesday

Published on by Margaret

Each week for Teaser Tuesday the idea is to pick two sentences from any page in the book you’™re currently reading without giving away ‘œspoilers’.

This week’s teaser is from Georgette Heyer’s Detection Unlimited, page 61:

The prospect of having to give evidence at an inquest seemed to affect Miss Warrenby almost as poignantly as its cause, and it was several minutes before she could be reconciled to it. She reiterated her conviction that her uncle would have strongly disliked it, and was only partly soothed by an assurance from Miss Patterdale that neither the post-mortem examination nor the inquest would preclude her from burying her uncle with all the ceremonial she seemed to consider was his due.

5 thoughts on “Teaser Tuesday”

  1. I keep seeing Georgette Heyer’s name around the blogs and Library Thing. I’ll have to give her a try. The language seems quite dense – when was she published?

    Hope you have a wonderful week Margaret.

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  3. Terri, Heyer’s first book was published in 1923. Detection Unlimited was 30 years later in 1953. She died in 1974.

    Wendi, this is only the second book of Heyer’s that I’ve read and it is very different from the first, which was Friday’s Child, one of her Regency novels. So far (and I’ve nearly finished it) Detection Unlimjited is entertaining and is mainly a study of all the characters who could possibly have committed the murder. So far I’ve no idea which one of them did it.

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  4. I read all six (I think, or if not, five) of Georgette Heyer’s detective novels when I was a teenager and I loved them then. I wonder how they would stand up to the passage of time? They were good golden age crime with a dash of romance thrown in. Very satisfying, I recall!

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