The butler totally didn’t do it

Great name for a classic mystery. We for sure know who didn’t do it, but then who did?

Driving out to the countryside, London barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a lady on the side of the road. While he’s doing that, he finds a sports car with a dead man behind the wheel. The girl insists she didn’t do it, but who else could have? They’re in the middle of nowhere!

Turns out the dead man was the butler at Norton Manor, an estate near to Frank’s destination, his aunt’s house. Frank gets involved in sleuthing out the mystery, and of course there has to be a second murder that may or may not be tied to the first. Frank’s family gets involved too (well, some of them), because they don’t really have much else to do, do they?

There are damsels in distress, snooping about, and chases, just to make things more fun. Heyer brings it again with the snappy dialogue. Another fun, turn your brain off and enjoy, mystery.