Set in the 1870s, the same period as Wharton's The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers is about five wealthy American girls denied entry into New York Society because their parents' money is too new. At the suggestion of their clever governess, the girls sail to London, where they marry lords, earls, and dukes who find their beauty charming—and their wealth extremely useful.
After Wharton's death in 1937, The Christian Science Monitor said, "If it could have been completed, The Buccaneers would doubtless stand among the richest and most sophisticated of Wharton's novels." Now, with wit and imagination, Marion Mainwaring has finished the story, taking her cue from Wharton's own synopsis. It is a novel any Wharton fan will celebrate and any romantic reader will love. This is the richly engaging story of Nan St. George and guy Thwarte, an American heiress and an English aristocrat, whose love breaks the rules of both their societies.

The Buccaneers

Literature & Fiction

Mainwaring, Marion

WHARTON,EDITH

United States

Penguin??Books

A parody of mystery stories focuses on the attempts of nine detectives to be the first to solve a murder on their ship, the Florabunda

Murder in pastiche: Or, nine detectives all at sea

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gollancz

Murder in Pastiche, Or, Nine Detectives All at Sea (A Periwig Mystery)

Mystery

Rowan Tree Pr

Stories that pay tribute to Rex Stout’s legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout first wrote about them in 1934. The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe collects two dozen literary tributes to one of crime fiction’s best-loved private detectives and his Man Friday. Included are: <ul>
<li>A 1947 pastiche by award-winning crime writer Thomas Narcejac</li>
<li>Rollicking new stories written especially for this collection by Michael Bracken and Robert Lopresti</li>
<li>Stories by bestselling authors including Lawrence Block and Loren D. Estleman</li>
<li>Chapters from Robert Goldsborough’s authorized continuation of the Wolfe series; Marion Mainwaring’s 1955 tour de force Murder in Pastiche; and John Lescroart’s Rasputin’s Revenge, which reimagines a young Wolfe as the son of Sherlock Holmes</li>
</ul> Also featuring a reminiscence from Rex Stout’s daughter, this is a treasury of witty and suspenseful crime writing for every fan of the portly private detective.

The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe: Parodies and Pastiches Featuring the Great Detective of West 35th Street

Lescroart, John

Estleman, Loren D.

Butler, Patrick

Narcejac, Thomas

Reynolds, Mack.

Block,Lawrence

Brittain, William

Short Stories & Anthologies

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Five American girls, denied access to 1870s New York society due to the newness of their wealth, go to England to marry into the cash-hungry aristocracy

Wheeler Pub Inc

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