A review by alexbrownbooks
Detection Unlimited by Georgette Heyer

2.0

I've read a handful of Georgette Heyer mysteries recently, and I've given a lot of them two stars, and I just feel a word of explanation is due here, because these books are really not at the same level of bad as a lot of other books I give two stars. They're just two-star books in the universe of Georgette Heyer. They're very breezy, and they generally have their share of fun characters and witty dialogue. (That's just how Georgette rolls.) It's the mystery plots themselves that tend to fall flat for me. Even when I don't predict them well in advance, I'm just not that interested in how they're going to turn out, and the detectives always spend far too long hashing and rehashing evidence that really wasn't that exciting in the first place. So, I'm going to join the majority when I say that Heyer's historical romances tend to be a cut above her mysteries. But if you're in the mood for some light and frothy Golden Age detective fiction, you could do much worse.