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Charles and Celia, along with Peter, and Margaret, brother and sister to Celia, have inherited an old house in a small village in England. An eccentric Aunt had left it to them complete with no electricity and a ghost known as the Monk. It has an old Priory and a neighbor, Mr. Titmarch, who floats around in the dark of night chasing moths and crosses regularly onto their land. The other Neighbors are the Colonel, and the Vicar and his wife. If the place only had rats Celia and Margaret could probably manage but they draw the line at the Monk.

Georgette Heyer writes a very well-executed Mystery with this one. Her characters are droll, sophisticated and amusing.The book is a light-hearted mystery but at the same time there is a sinister undercurrent. Things keep happening that are odd. Heyer, has a natural genius for farcical remarks and post-war humor in which the men are both bored, sanguine and witty while they perform quite heroic things they make light of...this was a very good book to start at night but the problem was how to stop. I like the way the Golden Era produced mysteries.The plot and people are entertaining enough that I kept reading till the early hours and still kept on.

This one is much lighter, and funnier than other Heyer's but the plot is no less interesting. The Aunt adds a lot to the eccentric side. I wish I could have joined them while they moved the planchette around. I just really like the characters in this one. I feel Georgette Heyer is underrated as a mystery writer. This is a good one...

My thanks to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Landmark


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Footsteps in the Dark Country House Mysteries Book 1 eBook Georgette Heyer Reviews

The book is set in an old English Abbey complete with skeleton and probable ghost. Have no doubt, it is a murder mystery but there are scenes where the characters will have you laughing out loud and there are many distinct characters to choose from. It reads like a well controlled Keystone Cops chase with Sherlock observing all, and Abbott & Costello leading the pack. None of them are actually in the book but I hope you get the picture. Great fun read.
This is one of the mystery novels by Heyer. While I love her Regency novels, her mysteries are fun. 2 sisters, their brother and a brother-in-law inherit an old house in the country. The women fall in love with the house but then the people in the village tell them stories about a haunted Monk who roams the house and grounds. they begin to hear noises and even find a skeleton in a priest's hole. But Charles and Peter aren't buying into the stories and think someone is trying to scare them out of the house. Their investigations lead to some interesting outcomes. And of course Heyer infuses her books with humor and sneaks some romance into this one also. A very delightful read
I've not read nor listened previously to any work by Heyer. Attracted by the price and the background of the author, I took the plunge with this, the first of her mysteries. Allowing for the customary defects in the robots work the male robot did a good, clear, easily followed, job. The book, itself, proved to be an enjoyable haunted house mystery, written with a light touch, and worthy of a place with the many similar works which have graced stage, radio and screen from deep into the past. The characters are amusingly drawn, the plot familiar but not hackneyed, the suspense handled adeptly, the humor not belabored, and the romance properly subdued to the central premises of the mystery. All in all, most engaging, and a pretty sure bet for most readers drawn to drawing room, rather than gritty urban back street, crime.
Some writers embrace publicity and bask in the spotlight. Others (Agatha Christie comes to mind) recognize the value of publicity and seek to control it to their benefit. Very few simply refuse it outright, but that was the attitude that Georgette Heyer resolutely stuck to during her long successful career as a novelist. It wasn't until after her death that the public learned her married name. I had always assumed that she was the wife of a well-to-do man and not dependent on her earnings. In reality, she was ALWAYS the main bread-winner, starting from the time that her father died and she (a very young, single woman) had to assume the responsibility for supporting and educating her two younger brothers. Her husband was a mining engineer and neither of them wanted to live abroad, so the money from her popular Regency novels kept them afloat.

By the time (1932) that she published FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK (her first "thriller") she had been writing for over ten years. She went on to write eleven more thrillers, but was never satisfied with her first and tried to stop subsequent editions of it. With matchless effrontery, she claimed that it was a bad book because she was pregnant with her only child while she was writing it and couldn't give it her full attention. She even tried to convince her publishers that she was only partly responsible for the writing because "One husband and two ribald brothers all had fingers in it...."

The author may not have cared for it, but it's one of my favorites. Set in the "Jazz Age" it shows an England in which the young people have adopted a freer lifestyle, while the older folks stick to the old ways. Three young adult siblings (two sisters and a brother) have unexpectedly inherited an old mansion called the Priory located outside of a small village not too far from London. The decide to spend the summer there, accompanied by the older sister's husband and the siblings' elderly aunt. And (as you've probably already guessed) the Priory is haunted.

The young people are delightful - intelligent, witty, and good-natured. Aunt Lillian is a hoot. There's a full complement of colorful characters living in and around the village. Some of them are stock English characters (the bluff, hearty retired military man; the eccentric moth collector; the sweetly vicious vicar's wife; and the bumbling village constable) but they're all completely believable. There are two romances. The older sister and her husband keep up a steady banter of insults, but are clearly much in love and the younger sister meets a mysterious visitor who claims to be on a fishing holiday, but seems to have more compelling interests.

The humor is wonderful. It's as nice a Jazz Age tale as you'll ever hope to read and a pretty scary story to boot. Thank God Ms. Heyer's publishers stuck to their guns. I would hate to be deprived of this one.
Charles and Celia, along with Peter, and Margaret, brother and sister to Celia, have inherited an old house in a small village in England. An eccentric Aunt had left it to them complete with no electricity and a ghost known as the Monk. It has an old Priory and a neighbor, Mr. Titmarch, who floats around in the dark of night chasing moths and crosses regularly onto their land. The other Neighbors are the Colonel, and the Vicar and his wife. If the place only had rats Celia and Margaret could probably manage but they draw the line at the Monk.

Georgette Heyer writes a very well-executed Mystery with this one. Her characters are droll, sophisticated and amusing.The book is a light-hearted mystery but at the same time there is a sinister undercurrent. Things keep happening that are odd. Heyer, has a natural genius for farcical remarks and post-war humor in which the men are both bored, sanguine and witty while they perform quite heroic things they make light of...this was a very good book to start at night but the problem was how to stop. I like the way the Golden Era produced mysteries.The plot and people are entertaining enough that I kept reading till the early hours and still kept on.

This one is much lighter, and funnier than other Heyer's but the plot is no less interesting. The Aunt adds a lot to the eccentric side. I wish I could have joined them while they moved the planchette around. I just really like the characters in this one. I feel Georgette Heyer is underrated as a mystery writer. This is a good one...

My thanks to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Landmark