Snowdrift And Other Stories

Description

Previously titled Pistols for Two, this edition includes three recently discovered short stories. A treat for all fans of Georgette Heyer, and for those who love stories full of romance and intrigue. Affairs of honour between bucks and blades, rakes and rascals; affairs of the heart between heirs and orphans, beauties and bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades and duels at dawn. All the gallantry, villainy and elegance of the age that Georgette Heyer has so triumphantly made her own are exquisitely revived in these wonderfully romantic stories of the Regency period. "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us aspire to." (Katie Fforde). "My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines enterprising and her heroes are dashing. I owe her many happy hours." (Margaret Drabble). "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable." (India Knight).

Reviews

"Georgette Heyer is second to none in her ability to make detective stories entertaining" Sunday Times "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable" Sunday Telegraph "A writer of great wit and style...I've read her books to shreds" Daily Telegraph "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us aspire to." -- Katie Fforde "The wittiest of detective writers" Daily Mail

Author description

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 seventeen 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.

Table of contents

* I.: Introduction by Jennifer Kloester* II.: STORIES**1.: Snowdrift*2.: Full Moon*3.: Pistols for Two*4.: A Clandestine Affair*5.: Bath Miss*6.: Pink Domino*7.: A Husband for Fanny*8.: To Have the Honour*9.: Night at the Inn*10.: The Duel*11.: Hazard* III.: NEW STORIES**1.: Pursuit*2.: Runaway Match*3.: Incident on the Bath Road