Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer
Uncle Nat was discovered stabbed in the back of his room, behind a locked door. There was just one entrance and exit to the space. There were a lot of individuals at the house party who might have wanted him dead, but how was the fatal blow delivered?
Envious Casca by Georgette Heyer
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When the diverse group of visitors learns there is a murderer among them, a holiday party assumes a macabre quality. Old Scrooge Nathaniel Herriard, the owner of the sizable estate, is discovered with a knife wound to the back. The tricky subject of inheritance might hold the key to solving this case, but the true mystery is how any of the suspects could have gotten into a locked chamber to carry out the heinous deed.
The investigation is made more difficult for Inspector Hemingway of Scotland Yard by the fact that every visitor is concealing something, casting doubt on every witness and raising widespread suspicion. Readers will be puzzled by the ingenious and daring crime, yet the solution has always been in plain sight.
A writer with extraordinary brilliance, Georgette Heyer. What a wonderful whodunnit this book is.
With the typical country house setting and a happy house party that is tragically turned tragic by a murder, this is a genuine classic of the golden period, first published in 1941. Although Heyer is currently more recognized for her historical and romantic fiction, she also wrote twelve detective books beginning in 1932 that ought to be read by more people. In case the statement from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar about “envious Casca” turns off readers today, it has also been reprinted under the title A Christmas Party.
