Review: Top notch reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
The author of these enjoyable stories of Olde England transported me back in time and I felt as though I were walking the cobblestones in the rain and gloom. I appreciated the first person narration of Captain Lacey so as to know his feelings and thinking and his courtesy towards women. He kept solving the mysteries through intelligence, investigation and questioning, but I was sometimes at a loss as to how he ended up with his conclusions. There were many interesting characters, some of whom we met in each book. Captain Lacey is someone we would all like to know, flaws and all. The stories focused mainly on the very rich or the very poor with the middle class only marginally mentioned. I don't think I would have enjoyed living then due to lack of medical care and especially since women were considered property of their fathers and husbands. We've come a long way, baby.