Four Stand-Alone Mysteries - Georgette Heyer

Category: Adults, Humor, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: Cozy Mysteries Footsteps In The Dark Penhallow The Unfinished Clue Why Shoot A Butler?
Written by Georgette Heyer
Read by Maureen O’Brien, Diana Bishop, Clifford Norgate, Christopher Scott,
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Georgette Heyer wrote Cozy Mysteries. Yes people are killed, often in a locked room, the detective is usually brilliant and exposes the murderer in the end, but she did it with a light touch and with a few laughs. All her romances followed the antics of the British upper-classes and her mysteries do the same. She wrote twelve from 1932-1953.

Stand-alone Mysteries
Footsteps in the Dark (1932) 8hrs 17min– Maureen O’Brien
When Peter, Margaret and Celia inherit a rambling old house from an uncle, they consider it to have a certain charm despite its ramshackle appearance. But suspicion is roused when they discover that for years no one has been very keen to set foot in the place - indeed, their uncle chose to live quite far away from this particular property - the reason being that it is said to be haunted. The things that go bump in the night take on a more sinister air when a murder is committed.

Why Shoot a Butler? (1933) 8hr 30min – Christopher Scott
Every family has secrets, but the Fountains’ are turning deadly…On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests her innocence, and Amberley believes her—at least until he gets drawn into the mystery and the clues incriminating Shirley Brown begin to add up…In an English country-house murder mystery with a twist, it’s the butler who’s the victim, every clue complicates the puzzle, and the bumbling police are well-meaning but completely baffled. Fortunately, in ferreting out a desperate killer, amateur sleuth Amberley is as brilliant as he is arrogant, but this time he’s not sure he wants to know the truth…

The Unfinished Clue (1934) 8hrs 13min – Clifford Norgate
A houseful of people he loathes is not Sir Arthur’s worst problem…It should have been a lovely English country-house weekend. But the unfortunate guest-list is enough to exasperate a saint, and the host, Sir Arthur Billington-Smith, is an abusive wretch hated by everyone from his disinherited son to his wife’s stoic would-be lover. When Sir Arthur is found stabbed to death, no one is particularly grieved—and no one has an alibi. The unhappy guests fi nd themselves under the scrutiny of Scotland Yard’s cool-headed Inspector Harding, who has solved tough cases before—but this time, the talented young inspector discovers much more than he’s bargained for.

Penhallow (1942) 12hrs 17min – Diana Bishop -
A family tyrant whose murder has shocking and far-reaching consequences…Hated for his cruel and vicious nature, yet ruling his family with an iron hand from his sickbed, tyrannical patriarch Adam Penhallow is found murdered the day before his birthday. His entire family had assembled for his birthday celebration, and every one of them had the ways and means to commit the crime. As accusation and suspicion turn in one direction, then another, the claws and backstabbing come out, and no one is exempt from the coming implosion.

My edit. Thanks to the original uploaders for three of these books.