Has been on my shelf for some time already, but finally I'll get around reading the book.

I've read Heyer before and I like her wit and the sharp tongue ladies have in her books and this is no exception.
Still reading and it doesn't come to anybody as a surprise who will be murdered. It wasn't a question of if, but when and why not before.
I came to say that I know exactly how Dinah felt saying it was so unreal - things like this do not happen in one's family - or to your friends, I might add. Eight years ago my ex-workmate and a friend was murdered on her porch in the middle of peaceful Finnish countryside where the majority of neighbours were 60+ years. A madman had escaped from the Kellokoski mental institution (or not returned from his unsupervised walk, as mental patiences have a right to excercise even if they take a hike, do some petty crime and don't come back every time they are let loose and have a drug addiction) and came to the farm to kill his mother, who had failed to tell her son that she had sold the house three years ago. Mommie dearest wasn't there, so he killed the person who came to the door. Disbelief was something everybody felt. This can't be true, crimes like this happen in big cities, abroad, in films. Not to somebody who was kind, helpful, liked by everybody. Lesson to be learned: Life is not fair.

Finished. Entertaining, good plotting. Has the feel of old world to it, but no wonder, Heyer was born in 1902.
I won't wait as many years before reading the rest of the Heyers I have.

Turning back time circa 100 years. Enjoy a truly British mystery!

Thank you very much for this and all the other wonderful books you’ve sent me!