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1st Week July 1817 Great Jewellery Heist Part 2: This Week in the Regency

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1st Week July 1817 Great Jewellery Heist Part 2: This Week in the Regency

What happened to the daring robbers who stole £20 000 worth of diamonds from Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, jewellers to the king? I had fun following the complicated trail of investigation and outcomes!

Note: I checked the Old Bailey records, and there is no record of anyone being prosecuted for this crime. I’ll check the other assizes, but it’s possible that the Lord Mayor sentenced them/him directly.

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I write Regency stories because I love them. I decided to get serious about writing these when my Regency novella, A Generous Heart, won the RWA Ruby Award (maybe the universe was sending me a message). I came late to writing in this genre, and for many years before that I wrote for children as Pamela Freeman and mystery novels plus early 20th Century novels as Pamela Hart. I started out in the Regency writing romances. Now I’m bringing my mystery writing together with a thread of romance in a Regency murder mystery which will be out in 2026. A classic country house mystery set in 1814: Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie, you might say!

Elizabeth Leydin was my great-grandmother, and I have her dressing table in my bedroom. Elizabeth is my second name, and it was my mother’s middle name too; a family tradition. My plan was to name any daughter I had Elizabeth, but I had a son, so the name was free for me to use when I decided to write Regencies.

Why the Regency for both mystery and romance? Well, when I first started reading adult books, my wonderful local librarian steered me towards Agatha Christie and Georgette Heyer. I loved them both, and it’s so much fun bringing those two genres together!

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