by Georgette Heyer · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099476368
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«The Toll-Gate» is Georgette Heyer's historical romance novel, published by Arrow in 2005 in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Captain John Staple, nicknamed 'Crazy Jack' for his exploits in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, is bored in peacetime. Lost in the Pennines, he finds an abandoned toll-gate and the disappearance of the toll-collector leads him to a mystery. To protect Lady Nell Stornaway from shady relatives, he hides his identity and finds romance.
The work was originally published in 1954; this Arrow paperback edition, with 320 pages, appeared in 2005.
For readers of historical and Regency romance seeking adventure and mystery; the book is in English.
Georgette Heyer was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ailing younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The couple spent several years living in Tanganyika Territory and Macedonia before returning to England in 1929. After her novel These Old Shades became popular despite its release during the General Strike, Heyer determined that publicity was not necessary for good sales. For the rest of her life she refused to grant interviews, telling a friend: "My private life concerns no one but myself and my family."
