Snowdrift and Other Stories (includes three new recently discovered short stories)

Previously titled Pistols for Two, this collection includes three of Heyer’s earliest short stories, published together in book form for the very first time. A treat for all fans of Georgette Heyer, and for those who love stories full of romance and intrigue. * from the publisher’s description *Georgette Heyer is second to none in her ability to make detective stories entertaining * Sunday Times *Georgette Heyer is unbeatable * Sunday Telegraph *A writer of great wit and style…I’ve read her books to shreds * Daily Telegraph *Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us aspire to. – Katie FfordeThe wittiest of detective writers * Daily Mail *Sparkling * Independent *My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines enterprising and her heroes are dashing. I owe her many happy hours. – Margaret DrabbleMy favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines enterprising and her heroes are dashing. I owe her many happy hours. – Margaret DrabbleHeyer’s characterisation and dialogue are an abiding delight to me…I have seldom met people to whom I have taken so violent a fancy from the word Go – Dorothy L. Sayers

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen 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.

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