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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sax Rohmer0571370977|title=FuThe Lock-Manchu - Daughter of Fu-ManchuUp|author=John Banville
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|summary=Fu Manchu It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is dead now back in Dublin and living (or is he?if somewhat uneasily) but with his evil genius lives ondaughter, in the form Phoebe. The worst of his daughter! New narrator Greville grief is sent to fetch Dr Petrie (narrator of over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the first three books) to come to an archaeological dig where Grevillealready strained relationship between them more difficult. They's chief Barton, an old friend re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of Petrie's, lies dead. (Or does he?) From therea young, the pairJewish scholar, along with Nayland Smith and Superintendent WeymouthRosa Jacobs, are plunged into is found in a deathlock-defying adventureup. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686062</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=GK Chesterton1529337968|title=The Complete Father Brown StoriesIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
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|summary=Having read many of It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the Father Brown short stories before, and after really enjoying following morning - on the recent screen version, I jumped at day that the chance NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to get hold of this TV tiehelp patients with those non-in omnibusmedical problems which affect their health. The little cleric who has such a mild manner, but a keen knowledge hardest part of human evil, is one of my favourite detectives, the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and it was a pleasure that they don't have to be able do anything to read this complete collection qualify for them. Some of his storiesthe problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906467</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Sheridan057136358X|title=London Calling: a Mirabelle Bevan MysteryApril in Spain|author=John Banville
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Mirabelle Bevan is an intriguing character. WarmTerry Tice was a hitman, resourceful and extremely clever, she spent her war years although he didn't think of himself in intelligence (though not active duty) and then, those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the war ended and her long-time lover diedthought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, she withdrew something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the coast and army ''where he got the dubious joys chance to kill a lot of running the little yellow fellows and had a debt-collection agencyfine old time''. Accidentally getting involved in solving He was spending a major crime lot of time with her vibrant young companion Vesta gets her noticed, however, and it isnPercy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't long before she finds herself kneeknow the purpose of a swizzle stick -deep surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in another mystery. A childhood friend flees London and an accusation of murder to beg Vesta and her employer to help him prove his innocence. This leads the intrepid pair into ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the world benefits of smoky, music-filled basements and the black market, where they encounter criminals from all across the social spectrumtaking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972434</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacqueline JacquesB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Colours Mystery of CorruptionHealing|author=A P McGrath
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Mary, an impoverished cleaner, is witness to a murderWe meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. Archie is one of The remuneration isn't high but the first artists to work with gives the police and creates doctor a picture feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the man she says she sawwarriors to live. Taken by her looks he persuades Mary to sit for It's quite a portraitspectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, but they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the man condemned criminals who buys are going to fight for their lives with the portraitwould rather buy Mary herself.wild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784531</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Taylor1529337925|title=The Scent of DeathMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=It’s hard to explain why Andrew Taylor’s novels are It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so chilling. They’re ghost stories that often lack ghostshappened, crime novels in which it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the crime itself feels at a remove from Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the rest sofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the actioncall from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. But that’s really She was the secret publisher of their power: while a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in most thrillers, the bogeyman is a single entity, easy local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to pinpoint drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and therefore easy Osborne to excise from warn the rest man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the healthy fictional world, things are never so simple in the universes Taylor creates. What is frightening in an Andrew Taylor novel? Everythingsame job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007213514</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08LKT7HSR|authortitle=George Mann Murder in the Belltower (EditorA Miss Underhay Mystery)|titleauthor=Encounters of Sherlock HolmesHelena Dixon|rating=43.5
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|summary=Sherlock Holmes In December 1933 the remains an enduring icon of English literature; perhaps as popular today as he Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was back sought in the late 1800s, maybe even more so connection with the advent murder of TV Elowed and film adaptations of his adventureshalf-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Indeed Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, such is the lasting appeal of the character who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that since the death of Conan Doyle there have been literally hundreds of works published, picking up where the original stories left offman responsible for her murder will be brought to justice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew PearlStephen Clarke|title=The TechnologistsSpy Who Inspired Me
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)
|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The year is 1868 and Boston is under threat Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from an evil genius Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who seems to have the uncanny ability to manipulate matter itselflives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. The city has already experienced two attacks; She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the chaos Barleycorn Brewery in the harbour when the navigation instruments went awry Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and the eerie spectacle in the commercial quarter when every item of glassright-hand man, including windowsJames Lofthouse, eyeglasses, clocks will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what the continental brewers were doing and watches spontaneously meltedwhat changes Barleycorn might need to make. But are these attacks William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a prelude little bit ''too'' much or is going to something greater?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512769</amazonuk>bring back a German bride but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James P Blaylock0241433568|title=The Aylesford SkullEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=45
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Langdon St. Ives, renowned scientist It's 1930 and adventurer, returns home from the hubbub Megan and grime of Victorian London to Henry are staying with Bunny at his tranquil residence house in rural Aylesford where Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he lives with his wife Alice and their two young children. Weary of the city, having survived 's going to have a devastating explosion rest and particularly vicious attempt on his life, then he is hoping for some repose wants to talk to Megan and a chance to work quietly on Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his latest project; a dirigible airshipguests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689797</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Gallagher1473682401|title=The Kingdom of BonesTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary='If you like this sort of thing…' reads a line from Stephen Gallagher's 'The Kingdom of Bones', 'then here comes Those who were with us at the kind end of thing you’ll like[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. It’s describing When they arrive no one can doubt the opening music for a theatrical numbercharms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, but it’s an almost perfect tagline for Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they'The Kingdom of Bones'' itselfre staying with Dandy and Hugh. If you like Victorians Dandy and her detective partner, vaudeville and villainyAlec Osborne, if you like prize-fighting and police chases and possession by had not taken up the chance to look into a problem at the DevilCramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, then here comes 'The Kingdom but suddenly the possibility of being out of Bones'. It’s the kind of thing that you’re really going to likehouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091950139</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dashiell HammettSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Return of the Thin ManHonjin Murders
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=ITo many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we've recently been discovering re in rural Japan in the original works 1930s. The oldest son of Raymond Chandler whichan esteemed family is belatedly getting married, like many peoplealthough the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, I'd what with it being arranged at great haste. She only really known from the Hollywood renditionshas an uncle representing her family, for one thing. A naturalEither way, if backwardsthe celebrations have gone ahead as planned, progression from there was clearly only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the writer that Chandler called 'sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the ace performer'neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the man 'who did over and over again what only crime, this case has a lot of the best writers ever do at all'peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800208</amazonuk>1782275002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Essie FoxB07XLM3SM6|title=Elijah's MermaidMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Author Augustus Lamb receives a shocking letter Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from his publisher Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and old friend Frederick Hallthe conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Hall Kitty has discovered Lamb's small grandchildren, Lily come to terms with this and Elijah, in a London home for foundlings. Lamb's son Gabriel 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had died to leave to look after a socially unacceptable liaison with beautiful Italian Isabella her sister who subsequently disappearedwas ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. Delighted beyond words at HallShe's discoveryalways coped with the mix of holidaymakers, Augustus adopts boating people and the twins, raising them naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in his Herefordshire country home, Kingsland Housethe hotel. There And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the children grow, happy and lovedhotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409123340</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Carnac0349423067|title=The Autobiography of Jack Body on the Ripper|rating=3.5|genre=Crime Train (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary=The ''Autobiography'' presents itself as the Ripper’s story told from his own perspective. The son of an impoverished doctor, young Carnac has a childhood obsession with blood which a series of unfortunate events morphs into a full-blown desire to slit human throats. It’s the typical Victorian coming-of-age story (from birth, to school, then first love and finally adulthood) with a twist, in that the path Carnac’s on leads him to become not a responsible adult but the most famous murderer of the nineteenth century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552165395</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kylie Fitzpatrick|title=The Silver ThreadFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=ItFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's 1840 and Rhia MahoneyCross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, daughter one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of an Irish merchant specialising in local linen, has a comfortable life. All that changesman, however, as her father's warehouse burns down, taking his faltering business stripped naked and with it, ensuring Rhia must make her own way in the worldno means of identification. Via family connections she comes to England Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the home services of Quaker widow Antonia Blake. The idea is Kate Shackleton in the hope that Antonia will protect Rhia whilst she seeks a position as governess her knowledge and connections in bustling, alien LondonYorkshire would give them the lead they needed. But rather than residing in a sanctuary, Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her problems worsen as she's enveloped in a mystery leading child and could not come to transportation despite her innocence. The only things holding her life together are terms with the letters fact that she writes to her dearly departed grandmother, her artistic skill and was now a determination woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to discover who wants give her goneall the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800127</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Davies1472127110|title=The Year After|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Tom Allen is home from World War I. Whilst waiting to be demobbed, he receives an invitation to attend the annual Christmas house-party at Hannesford Court, the stately home of Sir Robert and Lady Stansbury. He used to look forward to it before joining up and so decides to attend again, but everything has changed. The Stansbury's heir, Harry, and son-in-law, Oliver, were killed and second son, Reggie Stansbury, remains in a nursing home with no legs and dwindling self-respect. Whilst coming to terms with the devastating realisation that he's one of the very few men in their set to return alive and entire, Tom remembers pre-war Hannesford and the night when his friend Professor Schmidt died at such a gathering. Everyone believes it was unsuspicious but gradually things are coming to light that hint of hidden secrets. Along with her Ladyship's former companion, Anne (who has issues of her own), Tom decides to investigate as truths are exhumed, making him doubt whether those happier times were as idyllic as he remembers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980443</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Engelmann|title=The Stockholm Octavo|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=As a Customs and Excise 'Sekretaire' in 18th century Stockholm, Emil Larsson has all he needsIndian Summer: professional respect, a bachelor's lifestyle and a table at Mrs Sparrow's gaming house whenever he fancies his luck. Contrastingly, his superiors at work feel he's missing a certain something. In order to climb further up the career ladder (maybe even to maintain his current position) Emil needs to marry. His manager believes this so fervently that there's a deadline for the wedding. Emil panics but Mrs Sparrow offers to lay an 'Octavo', a fortune-telling spread of eight cards to guide him to the eight people who will ensure his success. However, not all goes to plan as, over the eight nights it takes to complete the Octavo, it becomes apparent that the prediction isn't for Emil's future, but has become an Octavo to save the whole of Sweden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444742698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruce Macbain|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Sextus Ingentius Verpa isn't the most popular person in Rome. He may be a high ranking politician with the Emperor Domitian's ear but this also means he's a spy, ambitious and not always using his power and position for good. When Verpa is discovered, unceremoniously and repeatedly stabbed in his well-guarded bedroom, there are many who sigh with relief. However, the murderer must still be found and so Domitian appoints Gaius Plinius Secundus (or Pliny the Younger as history will dub him) to investigate. Pliny isn't a natural but reluctantly takes on the task because Domitian says so; Pliny has no choice. Domitian also says that the culprit must be found before the end of the Roman Games, giving Pliny 15 days. Over these 15 pressurised days he'll dig into Rome's filthy underbelly of cults, prostitution and other things he wasn't expecting, including practically adopting his own, personal rude poet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800364</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Vices of My Blood: Murdoch MysteriesSara Sheridan
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|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=William Murdoch Life has at last been promoted to full detectivechanged dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, and continues to solve cases with his usual mix of dogged determination and flair. Toronto at since the end of the nineteenth century is marked by a huge divide between the rich war, and not always for the poorbetter. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, the fact that many of the latter group are utterly destitute leads lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in herself an ability to all manner of solve crimes, great made friends including an ebullient and smalldetermined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the arms of a rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kerr1912374439|title=Fell the AngelsThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for a young woman in Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the late nineteenth centurygame away. She was born Henderson but married Robert Castello and quickly came to realise For in a book that he was an adulterer with centres around a drink problem. A womanmurder, I's place was thought to be with her husband - even by Cecilia's wealthy parents - but they recognised ve told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that forcing her certainly has to go back remain to him could be problematical. As seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a compromise she was sent young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to Malvern her best friend to take help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. In this timeline, a water cure and it was there maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she came into contact and he lived together with Dr James Gully. He their baby as a young family, except he was a good deal older than Cecilia but a relationship developed between thought by all to have died in the two - affection on Cecilia's part (probably the most of which she was capable) and love on his.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk>War…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Kent1786075431|title=One BloodMrs Mohr Goes Missing|rating=4.5|genreauthor=Crime Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Historicaltranslator)|summaryrating=Sergeant Kella is being sent from his native Malaita to another part of the Solomon Islands to investigate logging sabotage there3. In the same district, his friend Sister Conchita has assumed reluctant control of a mission with three elderly sisters living there who are rather set in their ways, to say the least. Then a body turns up in the church… is this related to the sabotage? And how does the wartime history of John F Kennedy, vying to become the new President of the USA, fit in to all of this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013411</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Long|title=Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers |rating=45
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=While Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in one case in depthher charitable home. I say ''was'', there’s always room for another title at the other end of the spectrumshe has vanished. Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, dealing dead and in brief with a variety of murders over place the yearsnear-lame woman could never reach by herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk> Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1786893762|title=Time and TideThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A ship child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is wrecked on still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the coast of 16th century Scotlandchild was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the crew gonesetting is Victorian London, with all the only man on board dying rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a windmill lashed to its deckfascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. What happened? What sort And before you're more than a couple of illness does it carry? Andpages in, you realise just how much more importantly unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for the towna lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's peoplesay recreational, who gets created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to keep cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the windmill? Itghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a tough onesoft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan that is on the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Stashower0349414327|title=The Harry Houdini A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=There are two things you need to know about Stashower's Harry Houdini. Firstly, he is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. Secondly, and much more importantly, he is utterly certain of his own ability to do whatever he sets his mind to. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit in a minor way, in a murder, he immediately decides it is up to him to solve the case. It never occurs to him that he might fail, because that is simply not an option for the Great Houdini.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch MysteriesFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The fourth book in Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the series of mysteries mental relaxation which star Detective William Murdoch is setshe needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, like Kate was keen to take the othersopportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, in Torontonot least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the event. Religion, money and What could be better than seeing her family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' in England, witnessing a momentous event and Murdoch's struggles for truth and justice, not having the opportunity to mention his love life, are played out against the sense take photographs of guilt and the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faithsetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk> Or could it?
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