Our Admirable Betty  ‡

UK Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd. (London). First published 1918

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Review from Newport Vintage Books

"Georgian (Regency) adventure, the same period as his best known novel The Broad Highway, with plenty of flashing blades & feminine coquetry." Jessica Amanda Salmonson

"Tells of retired soldier Major John D'Arcy and his love for Betty, younger neighbour and belle, courted by all, especially Dalroyd, an old enemy of D'Arcy's previously known as Effingham, thought to have been killed by D'Arcy in a duel in France. Betty's Jacobite rebel brother Charles, poaching on the Major's land but released by him, is in hiding there, pursued by the King's soldiers. Charles eventually escapes to France by masquerading as his twin sister Betty, fooling "Mr Dalroyd", who is eventually shot by his servant Joseph (actually a murderer and highwayman), whom he is blackmailing. D'Arcy's faithful sergeant Zeb falls for their housekeeper Agatha." Jeffrey Bidwell