Georgette Heyer

Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has fallen in love with a Spanish noblewoman. She and her father were aboard a galleon captured by Sir Nicholas. He vows to make her his bride even though it means returning the pair to Spain and entering the lion's den.

When fate and a chivalrous impulse saddle Viscount Desford with a homeless waif in the engaging shape of Cherry Steane his childhood friend Henrietta begins to wonder if he has, at last, fallen in love.

An impetuous young lady and a fugitive nobleman? When spirited Eustacie stumbles into a band of smugglers, she is delighted to be having an adventure at last. Their leader, young heir Ludovic Lavenham, is in hiding, falsely accused of murder. Pursued by the law, Eustacie and Ludovic find refuge at an unassuming country inn. And the delightfully sensible couple who try to keep them out of trouble ... The resourceful Miss Sarah Thane and the clear-thinking...

It is no ordinary Christmas at Lexham Manor. Six holiday guests find themselves the suspects of a murder enquiry when the old scrooge Nathaniel Herriard, who owns the substantial estate, is found stabbed in the back.

When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophy with his sister in Berkeley Square. But Sophy's cousins are in a sad state, and she's arrived just in time to save them all.

Witness the appalling murder of Ernest Fletcher; found in his study, his head severely battered. It is Superintendent Hannasyde who uncovers the complex situation of Fletcher's financial and human affairs, pointing to a number of suspects.

The stabbing of irascible General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith fails to stir up grief in anyone - least of all his family, which is no wonder considering the way he has treated them all during the fateful weekend.

Renowned gamester Max Ravenscar regards all eligible females with indifference. But when he meets the woman his cousin is bent on marrying - the beautiful Deborah Grantham, mistress of her aunt's gaming house - finds that none of his experience in risk and gambling has prepared him for such a worthy opponent.

Superintendent Hannasyde's powers of detection and solicitor Giles Carrington's amateur sleuthing are tested to their limits as they grapple with the Vereker family - a group of outrageously eccentric and corrupt suspects.

A game of Duplicate Bridge leads to duplicate death. Both victims were strangled by the same sinister method. But what was the connection between the first, a mysterious man of the world, and the second, an ambitious widow.