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Georgette Heyer wrote a number of classic whodunnits, which are inevitably overshadowed by her Regency romances. There's a fair amount of humour in them, too.
They Found Him Dead
Death in the Stocks
No Wind of Blame
Envious Casca
and several others
She also devised the neat trick of not having a detective go on forever like Alleyn.... she started with Inspector Hannasyde and Det Sergeant Hemingway, but after a while the dour Hannayde got promoted upstairs, and the livelier Hemingway was promoted to Inspector and carried on with an succession of entertaining sergeants.
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