num_pages: 335
description: Professor Nicholas Fenton enters a pact with Satan and goes back in time to bawdy, turbulent Restoration London to prevent a murder that is about to take place. But he falls in love with the intended victim and resolves to alter the course of history. "Breathless pace and ingenious plotting."--New York Times. Reissue.
language: English
title: The Devil in Velvet
titlecomplete: The Devil in Velvet
genres: Historical, Crime, Adventure, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Unfinished, Mystery
ratings_count: 329
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub