Book description
Captain John Staple's exploits in the Peninsula had earned him the
sobriquet 'Crazy' Jack amongst his fellows in the Dragoon Guards. Now
home from Waterloo, life in peacetime is rather dull for the
boisterous, adventure-loving Captain. But when he finds himself lost
and benighted at an unmanned toll-house in the Pennines, his
soldiering days suddenly pale away besides an adventure - and romance
- of a lifetime.
Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of
the most successful and best-loved romantic novelists of her age, and
why her popularity endures to this day.
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and
best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her
own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was
written at the age of fifteen 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.
Also available soon in Arrow by Georgette Heyer:
June 2005
A Civil Contract (ISBN 0099474441)
The Spanish Bride (ISBN 009947445X)
Lady of Quality (ISBN 0099474468)
False Colours (ISBN 0099476339)
April Lady (ISBN 0099476347)
Sprig Muslin (ISBN 0099476355)
October 2005
The Quiet Gentleman (0099476371)
Pistols for Two (ISBN 009947638X)
Royal Escape (ISBN 0099476398)
Cousin Kate (ISBN 0099490951)
Masqueraders (ISBN 0099476436)
Jennifer Kloester: Georgette Heyer's Regency World (William Heinemann)
January 2006
My Lord John (ISBN 0099476428)
The Conqueror (ISBN 0099490927)
Simon the Coldheart (ISBN 0099490943)
Beauvallet (ISBN 0099490935)
