POP QUIZ!

[erastes]

This cover (under the cut) Is it:

1. Mr Black meets Mr White whilst Mr White was out walking with his affianced.  Mr Black falls immediately in love with Mr White and remarks favourably on the handsome swell of his calf. Affianced falls into dead swoon.

2. Resigned to being fated never to have to see his boyhood love, Mr Black (who's on a Tour) again, Mr White married Flossie Fainter.  Then one day on Hampstead Heath, the two men meet again. Their eye fucking causes Mrs White to do what she does best.

3. "What have you done?" said Mr Black, aghast. "You said you'd never come back, while I was married," said White, desperately. 

4 "It looks like not every young Regency female is open to Menage-a-trois," said Mr Black with a wry smile.

Comments

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I choose 3. "What have you done?" said Mr Black, aghast. "You said you'd never come back, while I was married," said White, desperately. I like a bit of drama...

:-) Elisa

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*laughs *

Isn't it wonderful! I can't bear the thought of getting a copy because I know I will be soo disappointed!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I so love this old books. I have a lot of them that I haven't read, I bought them only for the illustrations.

Elisa

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

No, it's a Xena time-travel story. The unconscious lass is Gabrielle, thumped on the head by old Sir Russet-Coat for having the temerity to walk about in public with a woman dressed in riding-breeches. (Look at the hips on Black Hat, fergawdsake!)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*dies of the giggles*

"He" is rather... curvy!

[aunty_marion]

He's wearing a corset. It's the only possible explanation for that beautifully nipped-in waist. Surely. *g*

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

#4 for sure!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I think it's very likely!

[tharain.livejournal.com]

I'd say, well, it's all four in sequence.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

OMG I didn't realise that they all linked!

Did you see your birthday card on the post before this?

[tharain.livejournal.com]

LOL It took me a moment to figure out that it was a multiple choice (the synapses are sputtering to a halt, and at 10:18 tonight will stop altogether)! I thought it was "Sequence of events". So you need to add 5) All of the above, in that order.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

ah yes, you did!

[aunty_marion]

"I'm sorry, old chap, but it's a female. I never could get the hang of females..."

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*LOL*

"oops! Butterfingers!"

[erastes.livejournal.com]

although, after Last Tango in Paris - the term Butterfingers has been a bit... soiled.

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

I vote for number 3! Which is likely to be FAR more interesting than the actual premise, which I venture to suggest involves calling someone out.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's much more like "You cad, you made her faint" (although do you notice that just to the left of the lady is another walking cane? Could one of the gentlemen have coshed her? surely not!!

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that better! Gay highwaymen, conking delicate ladies and stealing their... er, what's that word... reticules, have a falling out over who gets the cosh next!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to write that. *laughing so hard *

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

"You bitch," cried Mr. Black. "It's meant to be my turn this time; you did the last two as well! Selfish bitch."

"I may be a bitch, darling," sneered White, "but at least I'm built like a man; your tailor must be extraordinary; how did he make your breeches fit your girly hips? Damme, one's getting away! Here, take the cosh and stop her!"

&c...

[tharain.livejournal.com]

So of course I had to check out Farnol, and got into the rat hole of Wikipedia. Just finished Georgette Heyer.

GUH.

MUST TEAR MYSELF AWAY.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

OMG he's written loads!!

*refrains*

*BUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

[aperfectscar.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Have you read the chapter titles for the book? They're almost as hilarious as the cover.

(for example, Chapter XXVIII Concerning, among Other Things, the Legs of a Gentleman-in-powder)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

O.M.G. NO!

I will go and look - that sounds like the name of novel all by itself.

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

Is that like frogs' legs in aspic?

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I vote for 3). Definitely a Regency murder mystery, with a torrid gay love affair as the motive!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It has so many BUNNIES! I could write 10 novels on the chapter names alone.

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Actually, Farnol is whole lot of fun to read. I'd recommend him. :-)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely have to check him out... Where have I BEEN that you guys all know him, and I've never heard of him?

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

I found him on Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Violet Books site - http://www.violetbooks.com/farnol-bib.html
She has eclectic and fascinating tastes, whether it all speaks to you or not. I've discovered a number of authors new to me out there. :-)

[larissa-gale.livejournal.com]

Well, the title is "The Amateur Gentleman", so maybe one of them is an, ahem, professional gentleman, if you know what I mean!

Oh, and I've friended you because of your work on erotic_authors, in case you were wondering!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Welcome!

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

"Erm, no, this one isn't yours. Have you lost your eyeglass thingie again? This is some other fainted female. You'll just have to keep looking, Reggie. I say, they're laying them out all over the park like nine-pins, what?"

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*giggles* For the win!

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Well, Mr. Black Hat does rathe rhave that myopic squint, doesn't he?