Anne here, announcing that Jennifer Kloester's new book,The Novels of Georgette Heyer is out as an e-book.
I'm not sure whether or when it will be published as a paper book, but when I know, you'll know.
In the meantime, I'm entertaining you (I hope) with a quiz about some of Georgette Heyer's books. The usual rules apply — note down your answers with a pen and paper and at the end, there's a link to the answers.
1) Who called his uncle a "platter-faced old fidget”?
a) Sir Tristram Shield
b) Viscount Sheringham
c) Ferdy Fakenham
d) Pelham Winwood
2) Who removed the gold tassels from some very elegant boots?
a) Ulysses the dog
b) Oswald Denny
c) Edmund Rayne
d) Phillip Jettan
3) Who was predicted to be eaten by frogs and his offspring “delivered to the caterpillar?”
a) Lord Damerel
b) The Earl of Rule
c) The Marquis of
d) Dominic, Marquis of Vidal
4) Who called Young Lochinvar a “dashed loose screw.”
a) Jack Carstairs
b) Viscount Sheringham
c) Freddy Standen
d) Jasper Damerel
5) Which female character was said to have the countenance of a particularly well-bred horse?
a) Eugenie Wraxton
b) Sarah Thane
c) Drusilla Morville
d) Arabella Tallant
6) Whose aunt “adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!”
a) Annis Wychwood’s
b) Mary Challoner
c) Frederica Merrivilles’s
d) Phoebe Marlowe
7) Who is X in this quote? “I daresay X might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!”
a) Jack Carstairs
b) Mr Beaumaris
c) Tristan Shield
d) Freddy Standen
8) Who said: “There’s a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.”
a) Ferdy Fakenham
b) Gervase Frant
c) Viscount Sheringham
d) George Wrotham
9) Who said: “I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.”
a) Hugo Darracott
b) Nick Beauvallet
c) Capt. John Staples
d) The Duke of Avon
10) Who offered herself as a substitute bride, despite the fact that she stammered and her eyebrows would not arch. But she did have The Family Nose.
a) Sophy Stanton-Lacy
b) Nell Stornaway
c) Horatia Winwood
d) Hero Wantage
11) Whose sleep was guarded by The Mountain?
a) Prudence Tremaine
b) Phoebe Marlowe
c) Serena Carlowe
d) Judith Taverner
12) Who kidnapped a hero and shut him in the cellar?
a) Pelham Winwood
b) Kit Grantham
c) Deb Grantham
d) Léonie de Sainte-Vire
Now, click on this link and it will take you the page with all the answers. When you've added up your score, come back and tell us how you went. Too hard? Too easy? or Just right.