Category Archives: Regency Mystery

Regency Crime and Punishment: The Murder of Mr. Weare

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Radlett in Hertfordshire would come into the spotlight in 1823 for the salacious murder of Mr. Weare. Mr. Weare was a solicitor and gambler who Continue →

Regency Villains: The Duke of Cumberland and His Valet

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  CW: Suicide, murder, assault, violence A Minute Detail of the Attempt to assassinate … the Duke of Cumberland … in a letter to W. Continue →

Joan Smith: The Black Diamond

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Other readers are calling this Jane Eyre meets Rebecca, and they are not wrong.  This gothic Victorian has a plucky heroine off to investigate her Continue →

Regency Mystery: The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathhurst

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The disappearance of a British Diplomat in Germany during the Napoleonic Wars is perhaps not so mysterious to today’s reader.  But imagine its November 1809, Continue →