Title: The Black Moth Author(s): Georgette Heyer Pages: 1 Publisher: Publication date: Language: Format: DOC ISBN-10: 0099466198 ISBN-13: Description: Georgette Heyer (pronounced "hair") (16 August 1902–4 July 1974) was an English historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her first novel, The Black Moth, began as a story spun to amuse her younger brother and was published in 1921, when Heyer was only nineteen. The success of her novel These Old Shades, released in the midst of a General Strike, solidified Heyer's opinion that publicity was not necessary to good sales. For the rest of her life, she refused to grant interviews.
In the 1930s, Heyer branched out from her Regency romances. The Conqueror, released in 1930, was her first historical novel. The following year she released her first thriller, Footsteps in the Dark. For the next decade, she released one historical romance and one thriller each year.
As Heyer's success grew, she had repeated problems with both the tax inspector and plagiarists. She refused to file a lawsuit against the alleged plagiarists, but tried multiple ways of minimizing her tax liability. A limited liability company to administer the rights to her novels was formed, but after Heyer was accused multiple times of taking an overly large salary from the company, she finally sold it, and the rights to the seventeen of her novels that the company owned, to Booker-McConnell.
The Black Moth (1921) is a Georgian (set around 1751) romance novel by Georgette Heyer. This was her first novel.
Plot summary
Jack Carstares, oldest son of the Earl Wyncham, disgraced six years earlier, returns home and becomes a highwayman so that he is able to live in the land he loves without detection. One day while out riding he foils an abduction plot mastered by the infamous Duke of Andover. Injured while rescuing the damsel in distress, he is taken home by the thankful Diana Beauleigh and her Aunt Betty, to recover. Mystery and intrigue continue to the melodrama's end.
Heyer continues their stories in These Old Shades. The names of her characters have changed, but she hints to their histories and personalities.
Title: The Black Moth