Review: What was the author thinking???
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2011
The first part of this short Novella was interesting, very much an early England type of mystery.  Then in the middle a VERY detailed sexual encounter between the two main characters?????  This was almost insisted upon by the innocent female photographer who throughout the rest of this short story was the class conscious, shy young lady set upon by phantoms and begging for assistance from men of course.  Then we are off to discover and defeat the bad guy back in prim and proper old English style.  Having an encounter much less graphic between the Lord and this young lady would have fit much better to style and effort; after all this was to have taken place in 1855.  Just did not make sense at all given the attempt to copy old style England and their stiff (pardon the pun) views of life, women's place therein and class consciousness. It was written well othewsise and that is why I gave this 3 stars instead of 2.