I read Heyer's book because I like the humor in them. This was a tragedy; if you liked the ending of Hamlet, then you might like how this book turns out. Basically, we have a bunch of miserable adult children living under their spiteful, power-craving father. Someone (and we know whom) kills him in a way that should have passed for a natural death, but it's discovered as murder. All the people that the murderer intended should be free to live their lives in happiness instead end up unhappy, dead, or having insane fits. And an innocent person is pinned as the murderer. I was extremely disappointed by the story.