by Georgette Heyer (read by Cornelius Garrett )
an annual re-read
"It's the outside of enough"
Oh, I do so enjoy this story. It is so much fun even though it is a romantic mystery. Once again, it is the secondary characters that are the icing on the cake -- the hero's younger brother and his very obedient dog, the bad guys, the old nanny.
Poor Elinor Rochdale, orphaned without an inheritance or relatives to who she might turn, makes her living as governess, which was really a thankless job. As she is heading to her new posting, there is a bit of a mix-up when she gets off the mail coach in a remote village late one afternoon and she ends up at the wrong house and then reluctantly into a death-bed marriage and widowhood all within a dozen or so hours. The rest of the book deals with the mystery that the dearly-departed was involved in and the slow development of the relationship between Elinor and Lord Carlyon, the man responsible for pushing her into the death-bed marriage.
Almost four stars.
Halloween Bingo: Romantic Mystery
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