Devil's cub (by Georgette Heyer)

(Amazon UK link) Since I recently reread Georgette Heyer’s novel ‘These old shades’, it made sense that I would follow it (a month later) by rereading ‘Devil’s cub’, which I last read in 2018. That’s because it’s a kind of sequel, set over twenty years later. 
The characters in this book are wonderfully created, three-dimensional for the most part, and quite distinct despite a somewhat large number of them. Lord Vidal is the main male character, and we see him first as a hot-tempered, angry and pr...