Georgette Heyer
61) Beauvallet
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The most daring, dashing hero of all "Mad Nicholas" to his friends, "Scourge of Spain" to his enemies, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet is one of Queen Elizabeth's most dashing buccaneers and has never been known to resist a challenge. A Spanish lady all fire and heart When Beauvallet captures the galleon carrying Doña Dominica de Rada y Sylvan and her father, he vows to return them safely to the shores of Spain. But he has no sooner done so than he proposes...
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A Moonlit Night, a Sleeping Village, and an Unaccountable Murder... In the dead of the night, a man in an evening dress is found murdered, locked in the stocks on the village green. Unfortunately for Superintendent Hannasyde, the deceased is Andrew Vereker, a man hated by nearly everyone, especially his odd and unhelpful family members. The Verekers are as eccentric as they are corrupt, and it will take all Hannasyde's skill at detection to determine...
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Georgette Heyer single-handedly created and popularized the historic and regency romance genres. Heyer's writing is lively, witty, and charming, and full of vividly realized characters and well researched historic locales. Simply put, she had no equal among her contemporaries.
We have gathered Heyer's first four novels and a short story together in this omnibus edition. There are 350,000 and over 950 pages of fantastically written romance fiction....
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Musaicum Books presents to you the original regency romances, the incredible tales of love, lust, pleasure and betrayal.
Content:
Fantomina (Eliza Haywood)
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood)
The Fortunate Foundlings (Eliza Haywood)
Powder and Patch (Georgette Heyer)
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth Century (Georgette Heyer)
Belinda (Maria Edgeworth)
Patronage (Maria Edgeworth)
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
Evelina...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of historical romance novels, the immortal tales of love, lust, pleasure, and betrayal.
Contents:
The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas)
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Wings of the Dove (Henry James)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
Tess...
66) Royal escape
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Georgette Heyer's vivid account of the young Charles II's escape after the crushing defeat of his army at the Battle of Worcester. Evoking the excitement and drama of the times, the narrative follows the outlaw King through Cromwell's England to eventual safety.
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Fall River Press
Pub. Date
2010, ©1972
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English
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Full of charm and delight, Lady of Quality and Charity Girl are two jewels in the crown of the writer regarded as the Queen of Regency romance.
Lady of Quality: "Miss Annis Wynchwood becomes embroiled in the affairs of a runaway heiress, and is thus destined to see a great deal of her fugitive's uncivil guardian. Chafing at the restrictions of Regency society in Bath, Annis has to admit that at least Carleton is never boring."--Www.fantasticfiction.co.uk.
Charity...
69) The black moth
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"Jack Carstares, the disgraced Earl of Wyndham, left England seven long years ago, sacrificing his honor for that of his brother when he was accused of cheating at cards.Now Jack is back, roaming his beloved South Country in the disguise of a highway-man. Not long after his return, he encounters his old adversary, the notorious Duke of Andover, attempting the abduction of the beautiful Diana Beauleigh. At the point of Jack's sword, the duke is vanquished....
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Judith Taverner Worth series volume 2
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Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
1971, c1937
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English
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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited romance collection.
Content:
Fantomina (Eliza Haywood)
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (Eliza Haywood)
The Fortunate Foundlings (Eliza Haywood)
Belinda (Maria Edgeworth)
Patronage (Maria Edgeworth)
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
Evelina (Fanny Burney)
Cecilia (Fanny Burney)
Camilla (Fanny Burney)
The Wanderer (Fanny Burney)
Mary: A Fiction (Mary Wollstonecraft)
Pride and...
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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.
At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between...
75) Bodies from the Library: Selected Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Masters of the Golden Age
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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 rare tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. These orphaned works come mainly from magazines and newspapers that are now almost impossible to find.