by Georgette Heyer · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099493723
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«Why Shoot a Butler?» is the mystery novel by Georgette Heyer, published by Arrow in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Lawyer Frank Amberley comes to the aid of a young woman found beside a sports car with a corpse. Shirley Brown protests her innocence, but the clues incriminate her. The investigation leads to Norton Manor, where a butler has been murdered; the police are baffled and a second body appears.
«Why Shoot a Butler?» was originally published in 1933 and is the second title in the Country House Mysteries series; the Arrow edition is from 2007.
For fans of classic crime fiction and English country house mysteries with an amateur detective.
Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The couple spent several years living in Tanganyika Territory and Macedonia before returning to England in 1929. After her novel These Old Shades became popular despite its release during the General Strike, Heyer determined that publicity was not necessary for good sales. For the rest of her life she refused to grant interviews, telling a friend: "My private life concerns no one but myself and my family."
