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In the darkness Sir Richard Guyfford, aware that some one is breaking into his house, stands rigid and alert. A leap, a faint cry followed by a fall, and light of a candle reveals his victim -- Lady Helen D'Arcy, reigning beauty and toast. She had come to steal a letter...
In The Lonely Road Mr. Jeffery Farnol tells a stirring tale of pursuit and escape in the troubled times following the breakdown of the Jacobite rising of 1715. Jason Wayne flying from the red-coats, seeks refuge among the woodlands and valleys of his native Sussex....
The sequel to Farnol's 1946 novel Heritage Perilous.The new Earl of Wrybourne is living in peace with his beautiful wife and their recently born son. Who could wish him ill? His old enemy Sir Robert Chalmers, perhaps, but he has vanished from the scene. Or has he?...
Jasper Shrig is a sort of a nineteenth century Sherlock Holmes. Thrilling events follow each other with the starling rapidity of machine gun fire on a still night. The hero’s villainous Uncle is found with a dagger run through his throat. Shrig is almost strangled to...
Historical novel, set in the Napoleonic era. Sam Felton, a plain-spoken sailor, discovers that he has succeeded to the title (and fortune) of Earl of Wrybourne. Then things get complicated...
It is a fairy tale with every fairy but one grown up. For Lisbeth is no less a fairy because her hair is up, nor is Dick any the less a fairy prince because he is in trousers, nor the Imp any less Puck because he is in the disguise of the dearest, naughtiest, most...
A good fat book for the Farnol followers with even the naughty characters having something good in their make-ups. Arrogant uncle Everard proposes to his two nephews that they prove themselves worthy of inheriting his fortune by spending a year without money, save the...
Martin Conisby, embittered by his five years of slavery on the Spanish galleon Esmeralda, escapes during a sea fight and makes his way back to England, determined to avenge himself on Richard Brandon, who was the cause of his father's death and his own ill-treatment....
This tale regards the piratical adventures of Adam on the Spanish Main, together with his companion Antonia who has gone adventuring in the guise of a boy. Even critics who'd been hard on Farnol were won over by this one. The best book from his last period, it is...
A sweet, light-hearted, romantic comedy. The characters come alive with dialogue and crisp, minimal description. Betty, with the droop of her lashes and the stamp of her little foot, is one of the most likable—no, admirable—female characters you will ever come across in...
A story of romance and adventure set in Italy in the Middle ages. Noblemen plot amongst themselves to remove the counselors of their young Duchess and to induce her to marry one of their number. By a trick, one of her friends escapes death and plans a method of...
When Nicholas Harbourne unexpectedly inherited the Harbourne baronetcy and fortune he decided to stay incognito among his tenants to discover how they lived—and so met the lovely Joanne, who was valiantly running her farm under difficulties not of her own making. As...
A Collection of intriguing Short Stories of London and romance including: The London Stone The Sanctuary - Westminster Abbey The River Thames London Bridge The White Tower St. Bartholemews Smithfield Tothill (Tuttle) Fields White Friars The Banqueting Hall at...
The action takes place in Paris, London, and Sussex. This is a story of two feuds, in both of which Sir John is a principal figure. Throughout the book the gay, high-spirited and seemingly unmanageable Lady Herminia Barrasdaile carries on a vendetta against the man she...
Nineteen year old Adam Thursday, a foundling trapped in the cruel aftermath of the Old Pretender's rebellion, is forced to masquerade as a nobleman and marry the lovely Barbara MacGregor Pawns in the sworn revenge of Sir Hector MacFarlane, the young couple are swept...
No other city in the world could compare with it in grandeur, splendor, and wealth. And when it fell to the Turks in 1453, it must have seemed like the end of the world to Christians. Famed author Mika Waltari takes us into the last months of this dying city as revealed...
One of Jeffery Farnol's vigorous novels of adventures in Georgian England - gravitating from the rurality of Kent and Sussex to the stews and fine houses of London - involving Mr. Jasper Shrig. Plot: mysterious young lady is rescued from the Thames. She then...
This book is the diary of George Mueller up to 1860, whose story is remarkable and uplifting, with some autobiographical notes at the start. The author was one of the most distinguished figures. He opened many orphanages in the west of England in the 19th century, and...
A shooting in a locked artist's studio. Four suspects; at least two of whom are engaged in an affair. An exuberant and energetic case for Major Boddy.
Historical romance with a new setting for the author of The Black Rose and other popular novels. This time the master of historical detail has taken the New World instead of the Old -- in a period paralleling that used in The Moneyman to some extent. It is set in New...
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