Pistols for Two collects eleven short stories set in Georgette Heyer’s Georgian and Regency world. The stories use duels, inheritances, elopements, mistaken identities and unexpected proposals to bring young couples and divided families into sudden conflict.
The shorter form concentrates Heyer’s characteristic social comedy and period detail. Drawing rooms, coaching roads, country estates and affairs of honour provide varied settings for romances in which reputation and convention are repeatedly disrupted by individual choice.