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These Old Shades

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First published: 1926
Pages: 297

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One of Georgette Heyer's best-loved novels, this 1926 romance revives the villain of her debut and recasts him as a hero. Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon, jaded and dangerous enough to be nicknamed Satanas, buys a red-headed urchin off a Paris street to serve as his page, then discovers the boy is a girl, Leonie. He grooms her toward an elaborate revenge on an old enemy, the Comte de Saint-Vire, only to find his cold heart engaged in spite of himself. Moving between the salons of Paris and the drawing rooms of London, Heyer delivers elegance, wit, and a thoroughly satisfying reckoning. It opens the Alastair family saga.

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Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer.