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  • This is another of those authors who wrote delightful, satiric mysteries set in the Britain in the period between the wars. What I especially enjoy about Heyer's is that her's are funny. She shows up the foibles and pretensions of the wannabe gentility and points out the oh so proper clash between the old upper class and the nouveau riche.

    There are several mysteries that she wrote and they are somewhat connected with the Scotland Yard inspectors being much the same, though the official detectives are not the main characters.

    She also wrote several regency romances that are very funny. My brother, an action novel reader, once read one since he had nothing else to read, and sat there laughing. They puncture the pretensions of the upper classes during the regency period and involve a romance that is, of course, wrenched with misunderstanding, but not the saccharine idiocy of much of the regency romance genre.