| Regency Buck | |
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Yes |
| Genre(s) | Regency, Romance |
| Publisher | William Heinemann |
| Publication date | 1935 |
| Media type | print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 368 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| Followed by | An Infamous Army |
For the band, see Regency Buck (band)
Regency Buck is a novel written by Georgette Heyer. It has two distinctions: it is her only novel that combines both genres for which she was noted, the Regency romance and the detective novel; and it is the only one of her Regency stories to feature Beau Brummell as an actual character, rather than as someone mentioned in passing.
Plot summary
Judith Taverner is a beautiful young heiress who comes to London to join high society. She takes an instant dislike to her unwilling guardian, Julian, fifth Earl of Worth, who, having met her earlier in a small town filled with bucks watching a boxing match, treats her with a familiarity reserved for loose women. Judith soon becomes a sensation in London. She get many offers of marriage (including one from the Duke of Clarence). Worth does not permit her to marry any one of them. This initially makes Judith very angry, but she comes to appreciate it later. Judith has a younger brother named Peregrine (Perry) who is a young handsome boy with very little sense and a lot of money to spare. Hence, he is always getting into trouble. Perry and Judith's cousin Bernard Taverner seems always so kind and attentive, though there is little love lost between him and Worth.
Perry keeps getting into scrapes. He is challenged to a duel, gets held up, and nearly gets poisoned. Worth suspects that Bernard is the villain and he sends his brother, Captain the Hon. Charles Audley to watch over Perry. Meanwhile, Bernard tries to convince Judith that it is Worth who is the real culprit. In the end, after Worth provokes Taverner into acting, the truth comes out and Bernard is shown to be the guilty one.
The sparring and eventual love affair of Judith and Julian, against the backdrop of Judith's brother Peregrine's romance and danger, make up this novel.
Heyer's An Infamous Army is a sequel to Regency Buck.
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