Review: Very Good Early Victorian Mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2012
I found this novel to be very interesting right from the beginning even though it wasn't until  about one third into the story before someone finally gets murdered.  The characters and dialogue seem real as does the time setting and attitudes of those times.  There is no love interest, just Emily plodding along, despite the restrictions placed upon women of that era, to solve the murder and unravel other mysteries that pop up.Emily is independent minded but is not a "modern woman" per se.  Many authors place the liberated attitudes of today's women into their 19th century heroines.  That always imparts a false note to my way of thinking. That was not done here.It is a good murder mystery. Every time I would start to suspect one the the characters as being the murderer, Emily would also start to suspect the same person a few pages on.  That would get me thinking that I was on a false trail but I could never be sure. It certainly kept my interest.