Mystery at its best, set in the Regency period, from one of the best known and beloved historical novelists of all time.







It is in regrettable circumstances that beautiful Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine first encounter Julian St John Audley.







The man, they both agree, is an insufferably arrogant dandy.







But unfortunately for them, he is also the Fifth Earl of Worth, a friend of the Regent, and, quite by chance, their legal guardian...