Morton Devereux narrates his own life, from a boyhood of rivalry with his brothers in an old English family to the wits, wars and politics of the age of Queen Anne. A scheming priest, a love lost to violence and a crime whose author remains unknown haunt him through courts and capitals, and he resolves to find the truth.
An early historical romance by the author of The Last Days of Pompeii, full of eighteenth-century figures. Download the free EPUB.