A lively portrait of life within the mad world of aristocratic privilege and inheritance, from the unlikely 12th Duke of Beaufort.

Beaufort, South Carolina, the Palmetto State’s second-oldest town, is a paradigm of the Low Country. Historic mansions overlook the bay with century-old oaks standing sentinel. Visitors to Beaufort feel right…

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…

Beaufort’s long history of wickedness stretches back to 1562, when Captain Jean Ribaut built the ill-fated French outpost Charlesfort on Parris Island, eventually destroyed by mutiny and starvation. Colonial Beaufortonians…

After years abroad, Jasper Wainwright returns to Beaufort, South Carolina, home of his unruly youth. As cries for secession grow louder, Jasper works desperately to convince Beaufort planters that gradual…

When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone is ordered by King Henry to deliver a series of mysterious letters to the restless western reaches of Wales, he agrees only reluctantly…

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Following up a story about a fatal house fire, newspaper reporter Alec Lonsdale discovers that the victim’s death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant…