Q's Historical Legacy - XVII - Tales of the Civil War

Now surpassed in fame by his daughter's best friend, Daphne Du Maurier, Arthur Quiller-Couch was the pre-eminent Cornish writer of Victorian and Edwardian times.
His work is of great interest since his fiction often contains a factual, historical, basis
This volume contains five tales of adventure, romance, escapades and an occasional lucky escape:-
- 'Captain Wyvern's Adventures', relates the explosive consequences of the imprisonment of Parliamentarians in the tower of the.
- 'Margery of Lawhibbet' tells of brother and sister twins and the consequences for both after the brother goes to fight for the Royalists
-'Red Velvet' recounts the outcome of the capture of a
Parliamentarian by a female Royalist.
-'The Copernican Convoy' retells of the sack of Farnham.
-'The Splendid Spur' tells of a student who,
encounters a mysterious stranger and finds himself carrying a letter from the King.