The Toll-Gate (by Georgette Heyer)

When I re-read my Georgette Heyer historical novels, I tend to put off reading ‘The Toll Gate’. So I hadn’t read it since 2008. I was a bit reluctant to pick it up, as I didn’t remember it with particular fondness. But finally I decided I’d try it again… and have just finished it in two days. 

Although I did remember a very violent and unpleasant scene towards the end of the book, and also the beginning - where a young man takes over running a toll gate, after its regular employee vanishes -...