Georgette Heyer/Works

A few of her works are now in the public domain (her date of death, July 4, 1974, + 47 years) and have been made into freely downloadable ebooks. Many are available to borrow from public libraries. OverDrive, a service which makes ebooks available to public libraries, has some of her books; to use it, a logon account is needed (available through many libraries), but you can also make a (free) account for yourself using your email.

Novels (8) set in the Georgian period

No.	Title	Year	Plot summary	Notes
1	The Black Moth	1921		free ebook at Project Guterberg
2	The Transformation of Philip Jettan	1923		free ebook at Project Gutenberg; later republished as "Powder and Patch"
3	These Old Shades	1926		ebook from Overdrive
4	The Masqueraders	1928
5	Devil's Cub	1932		shares some characters with "These Old Shades"
6	The Convenient Marriage	1934
7	The Talisman Ring	1936
8	Faro's Daughter	1941

Novels (26) set in the Regency period

No.	Title	Year	Plot summary	Notes
1	Regency Buck	1935
2	An Infamous Army	1937
3	The Spanish Bride	1940
4	The Corinthian	1940
5	Friday's Child	1944
6	The Reluctant Widow	1946
7	The Foundling	1948
8	Arabella	1949
9	Regency Buck	1935
10	The Quiet Gentleman	1951
11	Cotillion	1953
12	The Toll-Gate	1954
13	Bath Tangle	1955
14	Sprig Muslin	1956
15	April Lady	1957
16	Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle	1957
17	Venetia	1958
18	The Unknown Ajax	1959
19	A Civil Contract	1961	A modest nobleman, whose deceased father bankrupted the estate, becomes guardian to three younger siblings. Forced to break a betrothal to a beautiful noblewoman, he allows the lady's father to introduce him to a wealthy merchant who aspires to a noble husband for his daughter. With full awareness by all parties, the arranged marriage is quickly accomplished. How will the new couple fare when their lives continue to intersect with that of the husband's erstwhile fiancee?
20	The Nonesuch	1962
21	False Colours	1963
22	Frederica	1965	A wealthy bachelor's affluent sisters, whom he dislikes, lobby him to give a ball at his own expense for their daughters' come-out. A distant cousin also asks him to introduce her attractive younger sister to the ton. To the astonishment of all, he agrees to give the ball on condition that his encroaching sisters share it with their unknown cousins. His sisters assume he must be under the spell of the beautiful younger cousin, whereas it is the seemingly unremarkable older cousin, encumbered with raising her three orphaned younger siblings and managing a neglectful older brother, who has caught his carefully concealed interest.
23	Black Sheep	1966
24	Cousin Kate	1968
25	Charity Girl	1970
26	Lady of Quality	1972

Other historical novels (6)

There are six of these, published between 1922 and 1975, to be added.

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Contemporary novels (4)

There are four of these, published between 1923 and 1930, to be added.

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Detective novels (12)

There are twelve of these, published between 1932 and 1953, to be added.

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Essays (2)

There are two of these from 1954, to be added.

Short stories (26)

There are six stories, and two books containing 11 and 9 stories each, to be added.

Attribution

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The basic list of works was obtained from Wikipedia (with all the references and publisher information left behind). A few plot summaries may be similar to those in Wikipedia because I wrote them first here.Pat Palmer (talk) 13:56, 5 January 2023 (CST)