It's almost forty years since Georgette Heyer died and yet with the exception of the five titles she herself had suppressed, all of her novels are still in print and still selling in large quantities and year on year she's still attracting new readers. By anyone's standards, she is a publishing phenomenon. In her fifty year writing career she never had a single failure. Although she wrote across several genres including crime fiction, it's with the Regency romance that her name is inextricably linked and indeed she's acknowledged as being the creator of that genre and though many have tried to emulate her style and her wit, their efforts have always been pale ...  Read the complete review