Time of Curtainfall — Margery Hilton

After her father died, Judy was somewhat daunted to find that he consigned her to the guardianship of his old friend Quentin Frayle, whom she remembered from childhood as a forbidding character, so forbidding in fact, that she had secretly nicknamed him ‘Rhadamanthus' after the stern judge of the underworld of ancient legend.

But after all that was some years ago; Judy was older and wiser, and it was reasonable to assume that she would not now Quentin as awesome as she had when she was a child. Nor did she. She soon found that there was a far more attractive side to him, and alas, it was all being turned on his glamorous cousin Crystal.

Hero: Quentin Frayle
Heroine: Judith "Judy" Lanstone



----- originally published in 1967 as "Darling Rhadamanthus"