Jeffery Farnol

When Sylvia Marchmont went to Europe, George Bellew being, at the same time, desirous of testing his newest acquired yacht, followed her, and mutual friends in New York, Newport, and elsewhere, confidently awaited news of their engagement. Great, therefore, was their surprise when they learnt of her approaching marriage to the Duke of Ryde. Bellew, being young and rich, had many friends, very naturally, who, while they sympathized with his loss, yet...

One of Jeffery Farnol's vigorous novels of adventures in Georgian England - gravitating from the rurality of Kent and Sussex to the stews and fine houses of London - involving Mr. Jasper Shrig. Plot: mysterious young lady is rescued from the Thames. She then disappears, and a new young lady meets and makes (platonic?) relations with the hero. Great adventures with real peril ensue, the hero falls out with everyone important to him, and dastardly...

The action takes place in Paris, London, and Sussex. This is a story of two feuds, in both of which Sir John is a principal figure. Throughout the book the gay, high-spirited and seemingly unmanageable Lady Herminia Barrasdaile carries on a vendetta against the man she comes, before long, to love.

Winds of Fortune is a novel brimming with romance and adventures... a pirate captain who turns out to be a real gentleman to the damsel in distress and a lost Incan treasure make for a first-rate Regency swashbuckling pirate romance!

In this romance the author tells of the joys and tribulations of parenthood and gives an ideal picture of the perfect human partnership of Charmian and Sir Peter Vibart, the heroes also of that greatest of all romances The Broad Highway. Their son Richard's adventures are as wild as Peter's own and culminate in his being involved in a mysterious murder for which, but for Charmian's faith and courage, he might have been sentenced to death, so strongly...

Nineteen year old Adam Thursday, a foundling trapped in the cruel aftermath of the Old Pretender's rebellion, is forced to masquerade as a nobleman and marry the lovely Barbara MacGregor Pawns in the sworn revenge of Sir Hector MacFarlane, the young couple are swept head long into danger as Adam seeks to uncover the mystery of his birth and prove that red hair's a fighting colour... A memorable romance of the Highlands in the days following the...

Sir Marmaduke, a weary man of the world, goes forth to seek his vanished youth. Of the many adventures that befall him, a mysterious murder is but one. The Quest of Youth is a story of Regency England romance and adventure which, because of its atmosphere, stirring action and unique characters, will be read unflaggingly to the end. A Farnol favorite.

In the darkness Sir Richard Guyfford, aware that some one is breaking into his house, stands rigid and alert. A leap, a faint cry followed by a fall, and light of a candle reveals his victim -- Lady Helen D'Arcy, reigning beauty and toast. She had come to steal a letter written to Sir Richard. Taunting him for being the villain and reprobate that gossip asserted, Lady Helen leaves -- with the letter in her possession. The beginning of this delightful...

Jeffery Farnol's exceptional gifts as a story-teller have long had world-wide recognition, and as a writer of tales of adventure he has few peers. The story opens in Virginia in 1774, at the moment when resentment at King George's treatment of the American Colonies and anger at Gaye's misguided high-handedness in Massachusetts, and particularly Boston, is blazing up to rebellion. George Charteris, Lord Wraybourne, a loyal Tory peer settled in Virginia,...

King Tristan's plan was to unite the neighboring kingdoms and duchies-with himself as ruler. The local kings and rulers, however, proved unwilling to be deposed in favor of Tristan and the plan seemed likely to fail until John o' the Green, a noble and an outlaw, was captured by King Tristan's men. Not to save his own life but for the sake of his nine captured comrades John agreed to his captor's proposal. With chain mail under his innocent minstrel's...