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THE DEVIL IN CLEVELYBy
Norah Lofts

From The Cover:

Sir Charles Augustus Shelinadine was an
autocrat. He ruled his village with a firm
but kindly hand -- instructing his tenants on
their crops, their children,
and their love-affairs.
And when he died and the new Squire came,
the village stirred uneasily. For the new Squire had strange ideas -- and even stranger friends -- friends like Mr Mundford who never seemed to grow any older and whose name so
rumour had it -- was linked with the terrible Hell Fire Club. And Mr Mundford was interested in too many things that should not have concerned him, . . like the ruins of the old Roman temple . . . and what happened in the village on All-Hallows' night. . . and in the silent, amber-eyed young woman called Damask Greenaway. . .
The latter part of the 18th century was a time of conflicting ideas, of rural upheaval and irresponsible whims. And the village of Clevely reflected-- completely--the symptoms of the times.
For the poor there was the round of village life... of harvest... and birth... and death... and there was the threat of land enclosure ... of economic disaster that could rob them of what little wealth they possessed.
And for the rich, for Richard Shelmadine and his long-suffering wife, for the eccentric Miss Amelia, for the sinister Mr Mundford, there were the sometimes cruel, sometimes fantastic indulgencies of extravagant people.
And in Clevely, the conflicts of rich and poor, of loved and unloved, of simple and sinister, culminated in a weird and terrible celebration on the Eve of All Hallows ...
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SCENT OF CLOVES
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MADSELIN
I MET A GYPSY
HERE WAS A MAN
BLOSSOM LIKE THE ROSE
WHITE HELL OF PITY
THE LOST QUEEN
HOW FAR TO BETHLEHEM
REQUIEM FOR IDOLS
HEAVEN IN YOUR HAND
HER OWN SPECIAL ISLAND
ESTHER
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The House Trilogy
THE TOWN HOUSE
THE HOUSE AT OLD VINE
THE HOUSE AT SUNSET
Norah Lofts writing as Peter Curtis
DAY OF THE BUTTERFLY DEAD MARCH IN THREE KEYS YOU'RE BEST ALONE THE LITTLE WAX DOLL
and published by Corgi Books
The Devil in Clevely
Norah Lofts