Word: heyer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ARABELLA (284 pp.)-Georgette Heyer -Putnam...
...couldn't have ended any other way and Georgette (Friday's Child) Heyer's fans wouldn't want it to. Her so-called Regency novels (1811-1820), of which Arabella is the latest, are as slick, as painless and as inconsequential as the most languid hammock reader could wish, and they have helped to make her one of the bestselling writers in Britain today. Author Heyer has soaked up the speech, the manners, the pretentions and the social ambitions of her Regency smart set. She has been compared, say her publishers, to Jane Austen, and that...
SERGEANT JOSEPH L. HEYER "Somewhere in North Africa...
ENVIOUS CASCA-Georgette Heyer -Crime Club ($2). Variation on two familiar detective-story themes-the English-house -party-where - everybody-hates-his-neighbor, and the corpse-in-the-room-locked-from-the-inside. Pungent dialogue and A-1 characterization make up for certain small shortcomings in the plot...