{"id":27238,"date":"2026-07-10T19:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=27238"},"modified":"2026-09-13T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:09:29","slug":"death-in-the-stocks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27238","title":{"rendered":"Death in the Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Death in the Stocks<\/em><\/a> (1935) Georgette Heyer<\/a> (Inspector Hannasyde #1)<\/p>\n

\"Death<\/a>Set in London in 1935<\/p>\n

\u2018Know how the body was sitting when you found it?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Yes, sir.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018All right. Put it back as near as you can. Ready with that flashlight, Thompson?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Constable Dickenson did not care much for the task allotted him, but he went up at once to the body and raised it to the original position, and carefully laid one arm across the stiffening legs. The Inspector watched him in silence and, when he stepped back at last, made a sign to the photographer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mind the rose-bush!\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve been driving this car for over a year,\u2019 said Antonia, affronted. <\/p>\n

\u2018It looks like it,\u2019 he agreed, his eyes on a battered mudguard. <\/p>\n

Antonia slammed the gear-lever into first, and started with a jerk. Her cousin watched her drive off, narrowly escaping a collision with the gate-post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Do you still adhere to that statement?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Why shouldn\u2019t I?\u2019 said Roger cautiously. <\/p>\n

\u2018Principally because it is untrue,\u2019 replied the Superintendent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Superintendent Hannasyde, Sergeant Hemingway, Mr Giles Carrington, Antonia Vereker, Kenneth Vereker, Rudolph Mesurier, Murgatroyd, Miss Leslie Rivers, Miss Violet Williams, Mr Charles Carrington, Roger Vereker, Henry George Fletcher, Miss Summertown, Philip Courtenay, Maud, Mr Harold Fairfax, Miss Rose Miller, Taylor, Colonel Agnew, Police-Constable Dickenson, Inspector Jerrold, Sergeant Hamlyn, Dr Hawke, Mrs Duke, Horace, Mrs Beaton<\/p>\n

Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark<\/p>\n

Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Ready with that flashlight, Thompson?\u2019 Constable Dickenson did not care much for the task allotted him, but he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,30,190,292,33,8,42,41],"tags":[151,971,546],"class_list":["post-27238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-british","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mystery","category-police","category-reread","tag-georgette-heyer","tag-inspector-hannasyde","tag-interwar-period"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-75k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27240,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27240","url_meta":{"origin":27238,"position":0},"title":"Behold, Here’s Poison","author":"Michelle","date":"July 12, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Behold, Here's Poison (1936) Georgette Heyer (Inspector Hannasyde #2) Set in England in 1936 Stella, unable to feel that Gregory Matthews\u2019s nature when a little boy could compensate her aunt for all the subsequent years of strife, was impatient of this facile grief. \u2018I shall never forgive her, never! 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