Why Shoot a Butler?

Georgette Heyer’s brilliant and highly acclaimed series of detective novels, now in a handsome new package

It is a complete mystery why anyone would choose to murder the trusted old butler of Norton Manor. Barrister turned amateur detective, Frank Amberley, has reason to suspect that the shooting involves the nervy young lady discovered at the scene of the crime, a snooping gentleman in the halls of Greythorne and then a second dead body. A dramatic tale of upstairs, downstairs and family secrets.

Author Biography

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. She wrote twelve detective stories, which earned her much critical acclaim and the title ‘Queen of Crime.’ Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

Georgette Heyer’s mystery novels-
April 2006
Death in the Stocks – 0099493624; Behold, Here’s Poison – 0099493640; They Found Him Dead – 0099493632; A Blunt Instrument – 0099493659
September 2006
Envious Casca – 0099493667; Detection Unlimited – 0099493748; Duplicate Death – 0099493756; No Wind of Blame – 0099493675
January 2007
Penhallow – 0099493683; Footsteps in the Dark – 0099493691; Why Shoot a Butler? – 0099493721; The Unfinished Clue – 009949373X