Georgette Heyer’s mystery book “Death in the Stocks” follows Superintendent Hannasyde as he looks into the death of Andrew Vereker, a man who is discovered dead in the town stocks.
About the Author
Georgette Heyer
Invented the Regency romance as a genre, researched it obsessively from period letters and newspapers, and kept notebooks of slang so exact that later writers simply borrowed from her. Heyer wrote around fifty novels, refused nearly every interview, and once said the public had no…