Published by Arrow, part of Cornerstone Publishing
Format: Paperback
£7.99
Author:
Georgette Heyer
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099474395
£7.99
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EAN: 9780099474395
Published: 6 Jan 2005
The legend of the Headless Horseman and a proposed marriage de convenance both have their impact on the mystery of a golden talisman ring and Lord Lavenham's young heir, Ludovic. Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, share the slightest inclination to marry one another, yet it is Lord Lavenham's dying wish. For there is no one else to provide for the old man's granddaughter while Ludovic remains a fugitive from justice ...
Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of the most successful and best-loved romantic novelists of her age, and why her popularity endures to this day.
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One of Heyer's most entertaining reads
- Good Book Guide
Georgette Heyer is unbeatable
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Sparkling
- Independent
My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours
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With a Georgette Heyer you don't buy a book, you buy a world. If it suits you, you settle down forever
- Time Magazine
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.
