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Aunt Martha, noted for her matchmaking, and cousin Lillian Watters came to help Sir Gerald Monteith’s daughter find a husband. Sara was beautiful but penniless and witless, and Aunt Martha thought that Anthony Fellows, running in a by-election campaign for Parliament, would do for Sara. Whig campaign...

Deirdre Gower refused to ruin her fiancé, Lord Belami, by marrying him--if her aunt proved to have murdered her brother. But the Duchess had brought the ancient Lord Dudley a bowl of stew, and he had succumbed to arsenic poisoning. The Duchess, Sir Nevil Ryder and who else wished to silence the old...

Her neighbor Lord Montaigne had asked Cecily Caldwell to pose as the anonymous author of the popular Chaos Is Come Again, written, supposedly, by his aunt. Cecily agreed because she had a novel of her own to introduce to a London publisher, and she wanted to do research on London society (including...

Minou (christened Lady Céleste by her British father) escaped the Terror in France to reach safety and send assistance for her mother and brother, who were in danger of facing the guillotine. Frustrated by the lack of progress, she determined to return to France with her cousin Henri--but they are followed...

Deirdre Gower, newly betrothed to Lord Belami, expected to marry at once, not rush off to Brighton with her aunt and her fiancé. But the Prince Regent was in double trouble--a beautiful blackmailer and a questionable long-lost son. Could Lord Belami extract Prinney from this coil without losing his...

Lord Costain suspected there was a traitor in the Horse Guards where he worked. So he took the German message to a local interpreter, who turned out to be Cathy Lyman. She was surprised by the content and eventually found herself involved with her brother in espionage. But Cathy wondered whether handsome...

Corrine deCoventry was the lone female in the Berkeley Brigade, a quartet of aristocrats who charmed the London ton. But when the lovely young widow wore the deCoventry pearls to a masquerade ball, and they were stolen by a masked Robin Hoodthe foursome, led by the dashing Lord Luten, moved into action...

The beautiful widow Corinne DeCoventrys young friend Susan Enderton disappears from her estate. The Marquess of Luten feels responsible for her kidnapping (if it was a kidnapping) and the Berkeley Brigade follows him to the country to solve this distressing puzzle. There are mysteries aplentya masked...

Londons young aristocratic Berkeley Brigade find themselves at Sir Reginald Prances country estate, where Corinne DeCoventry and Coffen Pattle attempt to solve the murder of a disliked neighbor. When Lord Luten arrives on the scene, the Brigade discover a plethora of clues and motives, plus an especially...

Esther Lowden’s country inn on the edge of Hounslow Heath benefited from the notorious highwayman called the Royal Scamp. The quality folks weren’t willing to cross the Heath at night when he was around. But Esther suspected one of her recent guests might be the highwayman, and she was determined...