An elegant card party turns deadly...Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a double murder. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand? Things become even more complicated when the fiancée of the inspectors young friend Timothy Kane becomes Hemingways prime suspect. Kane is determined to prove the ladys innocence-but when he begins digging into her past, he finds its more than a little bit shady...Praise for Georgette HeyerRanks alongside such incomparable whodunit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey, and Allingham. -San Francisco ChronicleThe wittiest of detective story writers. -Daily MailPungent dialogue and A1 characterization. -Time magazineMs.
