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Toll Gate
Toll Gate
Author: Georgette Heyer
The future of a reckless, adventure-loving captain of the Dragoons appeared both humdrum and tedious in those days when Waterloo was still a recent, glorious victory and also an end to the joys of soldiering. So handsome John Staple left the army to escape boredom and was immediately plunged into more exciting hazards than he had believed could...  more »
ISBN: 225445
Publication Date: 1972
Pages: 310
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Publisher: Putnam
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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alenya avatar reviewed Toll Gate on + 3 more book reviews
This is one of my favorite Heyer stories. I've lost count of how many times I've re-read it.
The characters seem so real you feel you know them personally, and the dialog is, as usual, delicious!
I loved this historical/romantic/suspense story! The secondary characters are well fleshed out and interesting in their own right.
This book is not only original and entertaining, but just plain fun!
Ms Heyer has a gift for characters and dialog that is nothing short of genius!
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The book was up to Ms. Heyer's usual excellent standards, but was not in the style that I enjoy for her books. The story was set in a rural part of England, with a less educated, less socially-oriented class of people. I prefer her upper class, socially trained characters.

However, the book was very definitely up to her usual quality.
TheIslander avatar reviewed Toll Gate on + 6 more book reviews
Re-reading her books. Great characters.
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Georgette Heyer is noted as a writer of Regency romances (she established the genre) and of murder mysteries. In this book she integrates the two into a seamless whole, producing an mystery that is inseparable from a romance (and which is set during the Regency). This sounds an unlikely juxtaposition, but Heyer pulls it off without a jarring note.
Captain John Staple, at a loose end now that the war against Napoleon is over, stumbles across an anomaly: an unattended tollgate. He takes shelter for the night, and in the morning finds a reason to stay in the area: Miss Stornaway. The two turn out connected, which is not to the Captain's liking, and he finds it necessary to disentangle them before he can let justice take its course.


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