Title: A Dissenting Opinion
Product review: I adore Georgette Heyer and snapped this one up with much anticipatory glee. At last, I thought, someone will give this author the respect and scholarly attention she has long deserved. Instead I found the author gave up on scholarship somewhere around the second page of Acknowledgments and instead settled for a compendium of previously published reviews. Yes, there are several rarely published short stories (although not "previously unpublished" ones, since I had already read them) and a few republished pieces by other authors. Certainly if a newish reader wants an extended bibliography of Miss Heyer's works and doesn't mind the having plot endings routinely given away without warning this book might help set the chronology straight. I can't help feeling cheated by paying for something I could have well researched on my own. The one bright spot is that my disgust sent me back to the bookshelves to read "These Old Shades."
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