GEORGETTE HEYER

"Ranks alongside such incomparable whodunnit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey, and Allingham.

Noted for his eccentricity, the Earl of Spenborough leaves a widow younger than his own daughter Serena, and his fortune to the trusteeship of the Marquis of Rotherham - the man his daughter had jilted. Here, Lady Serena finds herself involved with her lovely young stepmother, Lord Rotherham and her own childhood sweetheart.

Miss Abigail Wendover's efforts to detach her spirited niece Fanny from a plausible fortune-hunter are complicated by the arrival in Bath of Miles Caverleigh. The black sheep of his family, a cynical, outrageous care-for-naught with a scandalous past - that would be a connection more shocking even than Fanny's unwise liaison with his nephew! But...

Eine köstliche Ehekomödie voller amüsanter Mißverständnisse. »Wieder einmal in Geldnöten, Nell?« fragt Lord Cardoss mit sarkastischem Unterton, als seine junge reizende Gattin ihm schuldbewußt eine wahre Sintflut von Mahnungen ihrer Hutmacher und Kleidersalons vorlegt. Hat sie ihn, der sie aufrichtig liebt, etwa wirklich nur wegen seines Reichtu...