Why Shoot a Butler?

from SashaM

This is the first Georgette Heyer I have read and I enjoyed it but it didn't blow me away. It could have had some thing to do with the fact I was reading a 1963 edition of a 1933 book, so it clearly had not been PC'd the way some other newer editions may have been.The male protagonist - clearly t...

from LARA335

Read this out of curiosity as I had known of Georgette Heyer's so-so reputation, but not read anything of hers, and not aware that she did anything other than Georgian romances. Plus points: I didn't guess why-done-it, but I found the investigator Frank Amberly insufferably arrogant and was hopin...

from Andrew-theQM

This was an enjoyable book, and a good crime mystery. At times I was really into it, but other points it didn't retain my interest as much. It was well written with Georgette Heyer's usually good use of language, however at times I felt too much was kept in the dark. Letters, phone calls etc, whe...

from kaulsu

I can understand why I never encountered this title before now. I appreciate that "Sourcebooks, Inc." has digitized all of Heyer's books, otherwise I would never have seen this one. But it truly isn't Heyer at her best. It does, however, answer the familiar trope: why shoot a butler, indeed.

from nmhale

A thoroughly conventional cozy mystery, but since that is my favorite sub genre of the mystery section, I still enjoyed it. The scene is England, the mysterious events all happen in country manors or the fog shrouded countryside, and the characters are wealthy and intelligent and, oh yes, beautif...