Jeffery Farnol was a British writer from 1907 until his death in 1952, known for writing more than 40 romance novels, often set in the Georgian Era or English Regency period, and swashbucklers. He, with Georgette Heyer, largely initiated the Regency romantic genre.
The Amateur Gentleman is an early novel by the popular author of Regency period swashbucklers, Jeffery Farnol, published in 1913. The novel was made into a silent film in 1920, another silent film in 1926 and a talking film in 1936 with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. starring as the protagonist, Barnabas Barty.
The Broad Highway is a novel published in 1910 by English author Jeffery Farnol. Much of the novel is set in Sissinghurst, a small village South East England in Kent.
After the Verdict is a 1924 novel by the English writer Robert Hichens. It was published in London by Methuen and in New York by George H. Doran. The novel was listed as a mystery and a romance.
The Slave is an 1899 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens.
The Fruitful Vine is a 1911 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens.
The Knave of Diamonds is a 1913 romance novel by the British writer Ethel M. Dell.
The Top of the World is a 1920 novel by the British writer Ethel M. Dell.
Beneath the Magic is a 1950 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens about a concert pianist. It was released in the United States under the alternative title of Strange Lady. It was one of the final works of Hichens, a romantic novelist whose career stretched back to the Victorian era.
I Start Counting is a 1966 thriller novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop. With a serial strangler on the loose in her small English town, a teenage girl begins to suspect who it is.
The Tall Headlines is a 1950 thriller novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop. A middle-class British family are lest devastated and divided when the eldest son is arrested and hanged for murder.
Sight Unseen is a 1969 thriller novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop.
I Thank a Fool is a 1958 novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop. In the United States it was published by Doubleday under the alternative title of Mist over Talla.
Nicola is a 1959 novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop. An attractive young woman returns to her home village after a term and prison, and discovers how much she is resented by some of the inhabitants.
Christmas Tree is a collection of short stories by the British writer Eleanor Smith, better known for her novels. It was released in the United States in 1935 under the alternative title of Seven Trees.
Moss Rose is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, written under the pen name of Joseph Shearing. It is based on the unsolved murder of Harriet Buswell in 1872. The title refers to Moss Rose, a flowering plant.
The Master of Stair is a 1907 historical novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen. It was her second published novel after her hit debut The Viper of Milan, and was also a bestseller. The plot revolves around the 1689 Massacre of Glencoe in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. It is also known by the alternative title of The Glen o' Weeping.
Blanche Fury is a 1939 mystery thriller novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, published under the pen name of Joseph Shearing. It was republished as a Armed Services Edition during the Second World War.
Red Sky at Morning is a 1927 novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy, her third. Her previous novel The Constant Nymph had been a major critical and commercial success, and it was felt that her new novel failed to recapture this. Sylvia Lynd reviewed it saying "Few novels have so exquisite a forerunner as The Constant Nymph with which to compete. Compared with that, Red Sky at Morning, it must be admitted, is far less moving, less inevitable in the progress of its events, and less well stocked with fascinating characters. Compared with any ordinary novel, however, it is very good indeed - finely wrought, just, sensible, perceptive and witty".
The Oracles is a 1955 comedy novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. Kennedy was best known for The Constant Nymph and its sequel The Fool of the Family, but had enjoyed renewed success in the early 1950s, and her previous work Troy Chimneys was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It was published in the United States by Rinehart under the alternative title of Act of God.
