The Chronicles of Bond Street: Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue - The Last Season (Volume 3)

The Poor Relation Hotel has never lived up to its name so well: the accounts are at zero.

The guests, no matter how aristocratic, are bad payers.

It's time to crack down, and what better target than Lord Gray, who has accumulated six months of overdue rent?

It's Colonel Sandhurst's turn to roll up his sleeves, but his mission takes a different turn when he accidentally crosses paths with Frederika, Lord Gray's daughter.

Hostage-taking, ransom demand... Sandhurst is ready to do anything to recover the hotel's debts. But Frederika, delighted to escape her father's clutches, takes the opportunity to flirt, risking disrupting the colonel's plans.

📖 The opinion of the Old Grimoire Bookstore

By our editorial & librarian committee

M.C. Beaton continues with this third volume her delightful chronicle of the misadventures of the Poor Relation Hotel, confirming her talent for romantic comedy and social satire of the English Regency.

This volume features Colonel Sandhurst, tasked with collecting debts from a bad-paying aristocrat, in a plot that quickly turns into a farce when he meets Frederika, the debtor's daughter. The author excels at transforming a simple matter of unpaid rent into a romantic comedy full of twists and turns, where hostage-taking and ransom become pretexts for playful banter.

The strength of this series lies in its ability to portray with humor and tenderness the contradictions of an impoverished aristocracy that refuses to renounce its rank. Beaton masters the art of witty dialogue and comical situations, while preserving a true emotional depth in the relationships between her characters.

We recommend this volume to readers of the series and to all lovers of light and witty historical romances. M.C. Beaton's world, halfway between Jane Austen and P.G. Wodehouse, offers a delightful escape into Regency London, where love always triumphs over social conventions.

Our rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ — A sparkling romantic comedy that confirms M.C. Beaton's talent for Regency novels.