"Cinematographic with escapes, kidnapping, galloping sword play, and a breathless elopement." —The Times Literary SupplementThe most daring, dashing hero of all"Mad Nicholas" to his friends, "Scourge of Spai...

Abigail Wendover, on the shelf at 28, is kept busy when her niece falls head over heels in love with a handsome fortune hunter and Abbie is forced into a confrontation with his scandalous uncle.Miles Calvery is the black sheep of his ...

When young and beautiful governess Kate Malvern finds herself unemployed, she is taken in by Minerva Broome, the aunt she has never met, and whisked away to the majestic country home of Staplewood. However, things are not as they see...

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 dece...

An elegant card party turns deadly.…Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a double murder. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand...

An elegant card party turns deadly.…Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a double murder. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand...

Tis the season—to be dead....A holiday party takes on a sinister aspect when the colorful assortment of guests discovers there is a killer in their midst. The owner of the substantial estate, that old Scrooge Nathaniel Herriard, is ...

"A writer of great wit and style.… I've read her books to ragged shreds." —Kate Fenton, Daily TelegraphThe spirited and independent Miss Annis Wychwood is…twenty-nine and well past the age for falling in love. But when...

Tragedy befalls the Carter family following an eventful visit from a Russian prince and a scandalous blackmail letterThe superlatively analytical Inspector Hemingway is confronted by a murder that seems impossible—no one was near th...

Tragedy befalls the Carter family following an eventful visit from a Russian prince and a scandalous blackmail letterThe superlatively analytical Inspector Hemingway is confronted by a murder that seems impossible—no one was near th...

A family tyrant whose murder has shocking and far-reaching consequences....Hated for his cruel and vicious nature, ruling his family with an iron hand from his sickbed, tyrannical patriarch Adam Penhallow is found murdered the day bef...

A family tyrant whose murder has shocking and far-reaching consequences....Hated for his cruel and vicious nature, ruling his family with an iron hand from his sickbed, tyrannical patriarch Adam Penhallow is found murdered the day bef...

"Georgette Heyer is unbeatable!" —Sunday TelegraphFor her, he would do anything.…Plainspoken country gentleman Philip Jettan won't bother with a powdered wig, high heels, and fashionable lace cuffs, until he discovers th...

The Queen of Regency romance, Georgette Heyer shines in this sparkling collection of fourteen short stories. This re-issue of Pistols for Two features three stories written in the 1930s that were not featured in the original anthology...

When Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, first meets Phoebe Marlow, he finds her dull and insipid. She thinks he is insufferably arrogant. But when a series of unforeseen events leads them to be stranded together in a lonely country inn, ...

In love? You? Nonsense! Nonsense! Nonsense! You do not know what the word means. You are like a — like a fish, with no more love in you than a fish, and no more heart than a fish, and...Book #9 of 15 in the SDE Classics Romance Coll...

"What happens when a many-titled Duke decides to play hookey from his suffocating dignity.…" —Kirkus ReviewsThe Duke of Sale is out to prove himselfThe shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Gr...

Resourceful, adventurous and utterly indefatigable, Sophy is hardly the mild-mannered girl that the Rivenhalls expect when they agree to take her in. Kind-hearted Aunt Lizzy is shocked; stern Cousin Charles and his humorless fiancee E...

"Triumphantly good.… Georgette Heyer is unbeatable." —India Knight, Sunday TelegraphAn impetuous flight…Tiffany Wield's bad behavior is a serious trial to her chaperone. "On the shelf " at twenty-eight, Ancil...

"Fascinating reading…authentic atmosphere in a delightful English tale." —Chicago Sunday TribuneLess than a hero's welcome…Returning to his family seat from Waterloo, Gervase Frant, seventh Earl of St Erth, could have ...

Based on the true story of Brigade-Major Harry Smith and the very young Spanish noblewoman he met and married during the Peninsular Wars, when the Duke of Wellington's forces fought Napoleon's army in Spain and PortugalAfter marrying ...

"A story in the manner of Jane Austen, of domestic comedy and love affairs." —Times Literary SupplementAn impetuous young lady and a fugitive nobleman…When spirited Eustacie stumbles into a band of smugglers, she is deli...

"Witty…a cheerful extravaganza." —The New YorkerHis exploits were legendary.…Captain John Staple, back from the battlefront, is already bored with his quiet civilian life in the country. When he stumbles upon a mystery...

A Georgette Heyer Regency romance that takes a close look at the smuggling trade of the period, full of humor, and with a scene of family bonding and theatrics that readers will remember forever. When a Yorkshire cousin becomes heir t...

"Wonderful entertainment from first page to last." —Chicago TribuneA past dispute…When the irascible Lord Darracott's eldest son dies unexpectedly, the noble family must accept their estranged Yorkshire cousin as heir ap...

The third book in Georgette Heyer's brilliant and highly acclaimed series of detective novels featuring the amiable Superintendent Hannasyde.One heir after another turns up dead....Silas Kane's sixtieth birthday party was marred by ar...

Venetia Lanyon, beautiful, intelligent and independent, lives in comfortable seclusion in rural Yorkshire with her precocious brother Aubrey. Her future seems safe and predictable: either marriage to the respectable but dull Edward Ya...