“Acting Up” — Mystery Author Harley Jane Kozak on Georgette Heyer, Writer’s Digest (2008)

With a subtitle of “After a Hollywood career, Harley Jane Kozak, author of Dating Dead Men, took the lessons of the screen with her to build a behind-the-scenes career as a mystery novelist”, Jordan E. Rosenfeld’s profile of the former actress and mystery novelist featured this discussion of her early influences, which included Mary Stewart and:

…the regency romances and mysteries of ’30s author Georgette Heyer, whose books, she says, her mother was addicted to.

“Heyer’s mysteries aren’t particularly bloody or scary, but she was so funny, and the combination of the English drawing room mystery–nobody leaves this room until the murder is solved–with romances that were killingly funny were the ones I most wanted to emulate in terms of marrying those elements of classic mystery, romance and humor,” she says.