Joan: 2841 books

When she learned about her late husband’s infidelities, Lady Francesca Camden went a little wild. Assuming her maiden name of Frankie Devlin, she encountered Lord Devane at a masquerade. He thought she was a lightskirt and pursued, but she was rescued by a friend. Now, about to be forced from her home...

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...

Eve Denver encountered Richard Dalton when she was fleeing an irate pawnbroker. Unsuspicious of Mr. Daltons offer to secure a summer house in Brighton, and conscious of his ability to introduce her to the polite world, she took her valuables with her. Only to find that Dalton was using her as bait...

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...

The Berkeley Brigade is faced with a beautiful and seductive French comtesse, tucked away in her little house in London but looking to ensnare not only Lord Luten, but Sir Reginald Prance and Coffen Pattle. Lutens previous knowledge of the comtesse sets his fiancé, Corinne deCoventry, on the alert,...

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...

A new Berkeley Brigade mystery! Not only Lord Luten, who is hors de combat, Corinne DeCoventry, Sir Reginald Prance and Coffen Pattle but that charming rascal Lord Byron become involved in this murder. The Prince Regent wants it solvedand hes willing to give Luten a government post to do itor so he says....