(Wisteria Leigh Wisteria Leigh ) About the AuthorThe late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. (Melanie Heiser Lit Chick Cafe )Mmemorable, quirky and a bit eccentric. (Jennifer Higgins Rundpinne 20091216)A flurry of witty dialogue and comical conversations. (Caite A Lovely Shore Breeze 20091201)A brilliantly crafted murder mystery as only the late Georgette Heyer was able to craft. (Maya Missani Apprentice-Writer 20091130)I'm so glad a Georgette Heyer novel has returned to my life! (CJ Harris Mystery Librarian 20091201)If you are a mystery fan, especially of the witty, clever English country house sort, you do really owe it to yourself to check out No Wind of Blame. We Be Reading 20091123)A most entertaining story for a rainy afternoon with a pot of tea. (Christina MacLean Book-a-Rama 20091117)Of the Georgette Heyer mysteries that I've read so far, No Wind of Blame is one of my favorites. (Lucy Bertoldi Enchanted by Josephine 20091116)If you enjoy mystery, humour and a pinch of romance, you'll be entertained by No Wind of Blame. (Christine Zegelis Book Tumbling 20091111)A hysterically funny murder mystery. Hemingway editor online free full#(Lilly Reading Extravaganza 20091110)A rollicking murder mystery full of colorful players and numerous plot twists. (Gayle Surrette Gumshoe Review 20091109)Just the right mixture of entertainment and secrets to keep a reader intrigued and hooked until the last page. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to." Katie Fforde (20091005)ReviewHeyer may have been the Queen of Regency Romance but she sure could write a good solid mystery. And then there's the blackmail plot that mayor may notbe at the heart of the case PRAISE FOR GEORGETTE HEYER: "Our Georgette Heyer display of the Sourcebooks reprints has been a huge success, not only to those early fans like myself, but to many new readers who appreciate her style and wit."Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."Publishers Weekly"Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. The inspector is sorely tried by a wide variety of suspects, including the neglected widow, the neighbor who's in love with her, her resentful daughter, and a patently phony Russian prince preying on the widow's emotional vulnerability and social aspirations. Everyone on the scene seems to have a motive, not to mention the wherewithal to commit murder, and alibis that simply don't hold up. The superlatively analytical Inspector Hemingway is confronted by a murder that seems impossibleno one was near the murder weapon at the time the shot was fired. Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, *In Our Time* provides a key to Hemingway's later works. *In Our Time* contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler," and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose - enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. When *In Our Time* was published, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS
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