Joan Smith: 117 books

Lizzie Warwick was now a do-gooder who had mistaken Lord Carbury’s flirtation for the real thing five years ago. Now she solicited his help for his cousin Tommy, who had been accused of stealing a ruby necklace. Lizzie knew he hadn’t done it and knew who had. But Carbury was confused by the change...

Belle Savage, American romance writer, rents a cottage in England for inspiration. And she finds her Regency hero. Only hes a ghost, who entangles her in the past, where Arabella Comstocks tragic story pours from Belles pen. When the Lord Raventhorpe of Regency days finally learns the truth, will...

Lady Helena, whose father was an English lord, had spent her whole life in Spain, but she was sent to England to find a proper English husband. She found England dull and its men less than sterling. Her cousin Edward, for example, was a tyrant and disposed to ignore her, if not overset her plans. She...

Cassie Newton once again joins forces with John Weiss, an investigator for Lloyds of London, when he shows up in Montreal on the track of ten fake Van Gogh paintings. The forger is murdered, with the cast of suspects including Hot Buns, a museum curator and a sheik. Along with the luxury and excitement...

The Berkeley Brigade—Lord Luten, Corinne deCoventry (newly Lady Luten), Sir Reginald Prance and Coffen Pattle—soon have a chance to aid their country by bringing a spy to justice. Their one clue, written by the victim in his blood, to the spy’s identity is baffling. But the spy seems to know every...

Loretta Lawson is not overjoyed when an old acquaintance, Sandra, turns up knocking on Loretta's doorstep on Christmas Eve. After a week of wrecking havock on Loretta's content, quiet life, Sandra suddenly disappears. Loretta's relief turns to suspicion when she finds out that Sandra died in...

Loretta Lawson, a feminist professor visiting Paris to deliver a paper on the oppressive nature of masculine grammatical forms, stumbles across the murder of an Oxford don. But when the body disappears, she returns to England without alerting the French police, but is resolved to solve the...

Emma Nesbitts father left everything to his heir, trying to force her into marrying the man. In frustration Emma penned a diatribe against men which got her an invitation from a publisher in Bath, where she decided to settle with her companion. Lord Paton, critic for the Quarterly Review, got the wrong idea about Emmas views... Originally published by Fawcett Crest