If a movie adaptation of this novel had ever been made, it would have had to involve Tim Conway and Don Knots.
Nominally a romance, but truly, the book is pure slapstick comedy from start to finish. Lord Rule was the only character that wasn't ridiculous, and as a hero, this book does him a disadvantage because although events show him in the best possible light, no one with that much intelligence and foresight deserves the lunatic asylum Heyer built around him.
I enjoyed the book, but the slapstick is so thick on the page that it wore thin towards the last third and I was happy to see the end.