The Toll-Gate [Paperback]

Georgette Heyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2009

Planning to settle down after a brave military career, Captain John Staple searches for the ideal bride to complement his earldom and finds orphaned Nell Stornaway, an outspoken beauty who is an unwitting pawn in a treacherous scheme. Reissue.

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Editorial Reviews

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"* "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to." - Katie Fforde * "My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours." - Margaret Drabble * "A writer of great wit and style - I've read her books to ragged shreds." - Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph * "Sparkling" - Independent on Sunday" --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: HQN Books; Original edition (June 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373774125
• ISBN-13: 978-0373774128
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #348,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period her own. Her first novel, "The Black Moth," published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

Customer Reviews

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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Regency Romance meets Murder Mystery, November 25, 1999

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Brett Evill - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Toll-Gate (Audio Cassette)

Georgette Heyer is noted as a writer of Regency romances (she established the genre) and of murder mysteries. In this book she integrates the two into a seamless whole, producing an mystery that is inseparable from a romance (and which is set during the Regency). This sounds an unlikely juxtaposition, but Heyer pulls it off without a jarring note.

Captain John Staple, at a loose end now that the war against Napoleon is over, stumbles across an anomaly: an unattended tollgate. He takes shelter for the night, and in the morning finds a reason to stay in the area: Miss Stornaway. The two turn out connected, which is not to the Captain's liking, and he finds it necessary to disentangle them before he can let justice take its course.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gentle Giant and true love at a toll-gate!, January 18, 2000

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Kathryn Ross "aussiekate1" (Long Beach, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The toll-gate (Hardcover)

I am an unabashed "Heyer" fan and own almost everything she has ever written but I believe that this is one of her best as far as humor and wit are concerned. These "characters" all grab your heart, make you both laugh and cry ... sometimes all at once! One of my favorites that I have read and re-read many times over. Enjoy!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny and Absurd, February 6, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Toll Gate (Paperback)

Unlike a previous reviewer, I have read this one many times and find the dialogue so funny I laugh out loud. Not the typical heroine and hero but very real characters. I just love this book.