Description
Lively, amusing...done to a turn!--Kirkus Reviews
A fateful mistake...
When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer's home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death.
A momentous decision...
His cousin, Mr Ned Carlyon, persuades Elinor to marry Eustace as a simple business arrangement. By morning, Elinor is a rich widow, but finds herself embroiled with an international spy ring, housebreakers, uninvited guests, and murder. And Mr Carlyon won't let her leave ...
What readers are saying about The Reluctant Widow
Delightful and purely entertaining. The plot involves comedy, intrigue, espionage, cloaks and daggers, and things going bump in the night - served with a sauce of witty repartee that is the Heyer hallmark. Unforgettable.
One of my favorites!
A delightfully funny and mysterious romp.
Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen. -- Publisher's Weekly
Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781402213519
ISBN10: 1402213514
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Romance | Historical | Regency
- Fiction | Historical | General
About the Author
The late Georgette Heyer was a very private woman. Her historical novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers for decades, though she rarely reached out to the public to discuss her works or private life. It is known that she was born in Wimbledon in August 1902, and her first novel, The Black Moth, was published in 1921.