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Book Review of Why Shoot a Butler?

Why Shoot a Butler?
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Written by one of the best Regency Romance authors, Georgette Heyer also penned many mysteries mostly set in the era between WWI and WWII. For the flavor of that era, the quaint village settings, the quirky characters and the police procedural, these are perfect readings. In this novel the butler didn't do it, or did he and that was why he was killed? Amateur detective and visiting barrister, Mr. Amberley, suspected the mystery involved the brusque young woman he found at the scene of the crime on a lonely, dark, fog shrouded English lane. Plenty of twists and turns and suspects.