Read the Crime Novel Red Harvest and Tell Us What You Think
Dashiell Hammett’s crime novel Red Harvest is more than just a gripping detective story. It’s also a political statement, inspired
Jennifer Kloester is the bestselling author of Georgette Heyer’s Regency World, Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller, and Society The Novels of Georgette Heyer: A Celebration. She joins us to discuss Death in the Stocks.
Jennifer is a Patroness of the International Heyer, and a producer of the forthcoming documentary Who the Hell is Georgette Heyer?
She is also a popular presenter and public speaker and, in 2015, with Stephen Fry, she was delighted to speak at the unveiling of Georgette Heyer’s English Heritage Blue Plaque in Wimbledon.
Learn more about Jennifer Kloester below!
Jennifer Kloester loves books. An Australian author of both fiction and non-fiction, she has written extensively about bestselling British novelist, Georgette Heyer.
Jennifer has given talks, writing workshops and public presentations on Heyer and the Regency in the UK, USA, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand. Jennifer also writes fiction. Her most recent novel, Jane Austen’s Ghost, is available on Amazon.
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Jennifer Kloester, how did you come across Georgette Heyer?
Talk about your book Georgette Heyer’s Regency World, an illustrated companion to Heyer’s 26 regency novels, published by Random House UK & Sourcebooks USA (2005).
Talk about your book Random House and Sourcebooks published your book Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller (2011).
You wrote, “A personality in a sentence, a relationship in two and a whole world in a paragraph. There are so many scenes or lines of dialogue in which every word carries its weight in gold. It’s another of the things I love about Georgette Heyer and, I suspect, one of the reasons she endures.”
Jennifer Kloester, you have become friends with Heyer’s family — tell us about that.
In 2015, you were awarded a well-deserved and prestigious English Heritage Blue Plaque for her contribution to British culture and literature. Unveiled by popular English writer and actor, Stephen Fry, he spoke eloquently about Georgette Heyer’s remarkable literary achievements.
Jennifer Kloester, you have also written contemporary-historical romance, Jane Austen’s Ghost, and YA novels The Cinderella Moment and The Rapunzel Dilemma. Tell us about them.
Have you tried writing a mystery?
What are you working on now?
Tell us what you think, and we may share your thoughts in our next episode and send you a fabulous sticker! (It really is a pretty awesome sticker.)
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Teasers & Tidbits
Dashiell Hammett’s crime novel Red Harvest is more than just a gripping detective story. It’s also a political statement, inspired
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Long before he started writing his own detective stories, Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton was already a fan of the genre.
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