Georgette Heyer
61) No wind of blame
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Wally Carter's murder seems impossible--not one of the suspects was anywhere near the weapon at the time the shot was fired. Inspector Hemingway is confronted with a neglected widow, the neighbor who's in love with her, her resentful daughter, a patently phony Russian prince, and a case of blackmail that may--or may not--be at the heart of this most unusual case.
63) A Civil Contract
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Can the wrong bride become the perfect wife? Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton, is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of ruin and his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He has little choice when he is introduced to Mr. Jonathan Chawleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth and no social ambitions for himself-but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable...
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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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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...