Affairs of honour, affairs of the heart, and all the gallantry, villainy and elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has made her own are exquisitely revived in these eleven short stories of the...
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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, his...
When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study, everyone is shocked and mystified: Ernest was well liked and respected, so who would want to kill him? Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who, with consummate skill, begins to uncover...
Есть ли такая женщина, которая сможет растопить ледяной панцирь отважного воина Симона Бовалле? Она должна обладать множеством...
Перевод с английского П.В. Рубцова. OCR AngelbooksЖервез Сент-Эр подозревал, что мачеха и сводный брат вне себя от досады: ведь именно к нему,...
В книгу современной английской писательницы Джоржетт Хейер вошел написанный в жанре «исторического романса» любовно-авантюрный роман...
Жизнь в старинном английском поместье Дэрракоттов текла тихо и чинно, и ничто не предвещало потрясений до той поры, пока там не полнился...
A civilized game of Duplicate Bridge ends in a double murder in which both victims were strangled with picture wire. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand? The odds of solving this crime are stacked up against...
Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his brain. He is discovered by his niece Mavis, who is just one of ten people in the village in the running for chief suspect, having cause to dislike Warrenby...
A story set in Regency England. When a chivalrous impulse saddles Viscount Desford with a homeless waif in the engaging shape of Cherry Steane, he asks his childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale, for help. Although they refused to oblige their...