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The High Adventure
First published 1926
Jeremy Veryan goes in search of the “high adventure” promised by romance and quickly finds more danger than he expected. His loyalty to the reckless Richard Armadale and his growing love for Richard’s sister Olivia draw him into quarrels, mysterious attacks and repeated attempts on his life. What begins as a young gentleman’s pursuit of excitement becomes a problem of motive and identity.
Jasper Shrig’s investigation supplies the discipline that Jeremy’s romantic temperament lacks. Against the social world of early nineteenth-century England, Farnol sets duels, concealed enmity and criminal design beside courtship and friendship. The novel shows the Shrig sequence moving decisively toward historical mystery while retaining the exuberant physical adventure of Farnol’s earlier road romances.
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