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* MythologyGag: ''Golden Urchin'' features a couple of rogues who with hindsight bear a striking resemblance to Franchise/ModestyBlaise and Willie Garvin. (One significant difference is that, being supporting characters in a [[VictorianBritain Victorian]] historical romance, they're in love with each other and get married at the end.)
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* MythologyGag: ''Golden Urchin'' features a couple of rogues who with hindsight bear a striking resemblance to Franchise/ModestyBlaise and Willie Garvin. (One significant difference is that, being supporting characters in a [[VictorianBritain [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain Victorian]] historical romance, they're in love with each other and get married at the end.)
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* UnexpectedInheritance: Several of the novels feature some variation of "orphaned heroine discovers she has wealthy relatives, unwittingly makes an enemy of one of her new-found relatives who would have got the inheritance if she'd stayed lost".
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* UnexpectedInheritance: Several of the novels feature some variation of "orphaned heroine discovers she has wealthy relatives, unwittingly makes an enemy of one of her new-found relatives who would have got the inheritance if she'd stayed lost". Jani in ''Merlin's Keep'' does not expect to get more than an interesting story out of it once she learns of her exalted heritage, but the retired diplomat with whose family she has become friendly sees fit to negotiate an impressive inheritance on her behalf [[spoiler:in return for not trying to claim her birthright as Maharani of Jahanpur, which would potentially destabilize British influence in the region (and which Jani does not want to begin with)]].
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"Madeleine Brent" was actually the adventure story writer Peter O'Donnell, the creator of Franchise/ModestyBlaise, although this was not widely known until after the last of "her" novels was published. When ''Merlin's Keep'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year award in 1978, "Madeleine" pled an indisposition and the award was collected by a representative from the publishing house.
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"Madeleine Brent" was actually the adventure story writer Peter O'Donnell, the creator of Franchise/ModestyBlaise, ''Franchise/ModestyBlaise'', although this was not widely known until after the last of "her" novels was published. When ''Merlin's Keep'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year award in 1978, "Madeleine" pled an indisposition and the award was collected by a representative from the publishing house.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: The heroine of ''A Heritage of Shadows'' has one, the precise nature of which is kept hidden from the reader until an in-story dramatic reveal occurs.
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Nine historical romance novels were published under the name of Madeleine Brent, beginning with ''Tregaron's Daughter'' in 1971 and ending with ''Golden Urchin'' in 1986.
Each of the novels is narrated in first-person by the heroine and has a historical setting and an adventurous plot featuring an exotic locale. Many of the novels involved the heroine being the key to an UnexpectedInheritance or hidden treasure that the villains were trying to get their hands on.
"Madeleine Brent" was actually the adventure story writer Peter O'Donnell, the creator of Franchise/ModestyBlaise, although this was not widely known until after the last of "her" novels was published. When ''Merlin's Keep'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year award in 1978, "Madeleine" pled an indisposition and the award was collected by a representative from the publishing house.
The novels are:
* ''Tregaron's Daughter'' (1971)
* ''Moonraker's Bride'' (1973)
* ''Kirkby's Changeling'' (1975) (also as ''Stranger at Wildings'')
* ''Merlin's Keep'' (1977)
* ''The Capricorn Stone'' (1979)
* ''The Long Masquerade'' (1981)
* ''A Heritage of Shadows'' (1983)
* ''Stormswift'' (1984)
* ''Golden Urchin'' (1986)
!!These novels provide examples of:
* BetaCouple: A standard plot element, with the beta girl usually being the younger sister or friend of the heroine.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Cadi Tregaron in ''Tregaron's Daughter'' has a prophetic recurring dream.
* FishOutOfWater: Lucy in ''Moonraker's Bride'', raised in an orphanage in China, and Meg in ''Golden Urchin'', raised by Aborigines in Australia, each have trouble fitting into polite British society.
* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: The two love interests in ''Tregaron's Daughter''. [[spoiler:Played with -- the scoundrel turns out to be basically dependable, and the gentleman to have a hidden sadistic streak.]]
* GentlemanThief: In ''The Capricorn Stone'', the MacGuffin is the secret stash of a famous jewel thief.
* MarriageBeforeRomance: In ''Moonraker's Bride'' the heroine enters a marriage of convenience with a man who's about to be executed; complications (and eventually romance) ensue when he's not executed after all.
* MythologyGag: ''Golden Urchin'' features a couple of rogues who with hindsight bear a striking resemblance to Franchise/ModestyBlaise and Willie Garvin. (One significant difference is that, being supporting characters in a [[VictorianBritain Victorian]] historical romance, they're in love with each other and get married at the end.)
* RaisedByNatives: Mitji in ''Golden Urchin'', raised by an Aboriginal tribe after being abandoned in the Australian desert as an infant.
* SameFaceDifferentName[=/=]MoustacheDePlume: "Madeleine Brent" was really Peter O'Donnell, who wrote adventure stories with contemporary settings and much less romance under his own name.
* UnexpectedInheritance: Several of the novels feature some variation of "orphaned heroine discovers she has wealthy relatives, unwittingly makes an enemy of one of her new-found relatives who would have got the inheritance if she'd stayed lost".
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Each of the novels is narrated in first-person by the heroine and has a historical setting and an adventurous plot featuring an exotic locale. Many of the novels involved the heroine being the key to an UnexpectedInheritance or hidden treasure that the villains were trying to get their hands on.
"Madeleine Brent" was actually the adventure story writer Peter O'Donnell, the creator of Franchise/ModestyBlaise, although this was not widely known until after the last of "her" novels was published. When ''Merlin's Keep'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year award in 1978, "Madeleine" pled an indisposition and the award was collected by a representative from the publishing house.
The novels are:
* ''Tregaron's Daughter'' (1971)
* ''Moonraker's Bride'' (1973)
* ''Kirkby's Changeling'' (1975) (also as ''Stranger at Wildings'')
* ''Merlin's Keep'' (1977)
* ''The Capricorn Stone'' (1979)
* ''The Long Masquerade'' (1981)
* ''A Heritage of Shadows'' (1983)
* ''Stormswift'' (1984)
* ''Golden Urchin'' (1986)
!!These novels provide examples of:
* BetaCouple: A standard plot element, with the beta girl usually being the younger sister or friend of the heroine.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Cadi Tregaron in ''Tregaron's Daughter'' has a prophetic recurring dream.
* FishOutOfWater: Lucy in ''Moonraker's Bride'', raised in an orphanage in China, and Meg in ''Golden Urchin'', raised by Aborigines in Australia, each have trouble fitting into polite British society.
* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: The two love interests in ''Tregaron's Daughter''. [[spoiler:Played with -- the scoundrel turns out to be basically dependable, and the gentleman to have a hidden sadistic streak.]]
* GentlemanThief: In ''The Capricorn Stone'', the MacGuffin is the secret stash of a famous jewel thief.
* MarriageBeforeRomance: In ''Moonraker's Bride'' the heroine enters a marriage of convenience with a man who's about to be executed; complications (and eventually romance) ensue when he's not executed after all.
* MythologyGag: ''Golden Urchin'' features a couple of rogues who with hindsight bear a striking resemblance to Franchise/ModestyBlaise and Willie Garvin. (One significant difference is that, being supporting characters in a [[VictorianBritain Victorian]] historical romance, they're in love with each other and get married at the end.)
* RaisedByNatives: Mitji in ''Golden Urchin'', raised by an Aboriginal tribe after being abandoned in the Australian desert as an infant.
* SameFaceDifferentName[=/=]MoustacheDePlume: "Madeleine Brent" was really Peter O'Donnell, who wrote adventure stories with contemporary settings and much less romance under his own name.
* UnexpectedInheritance: Several of the novels feature some variation of "orphaned heroine discovers she has wealthy relatives, unwittingly makes an enemy of one of her new-found relatives who would have got the inheritance if she'd stayed lost".
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