Review: 3.5 stars rounded down because I didn't like some of the "good guys" as much as I hoped
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 13, 2014
This was my first City of Mystery whodunnit. I know Book 4 is an odd place to start, but I like exotic settings, Jack the Ripper (#1) is kind of done-to-death for me, and the Paris one sounded depressing (ill-fated love)... and this one was on sale!  Anyway...Good sense of place and history, good storytelling, fairly clever plot (although if I'd ended up enjoying it more, there are some scenes I'd want to re-read to see what I missed/got tripped up by), too many typos (not many major ones, but lots of spacing errors, esp. at the ((oddly deep)) paragraph indents, etc.) and other proofreading/editing lapses, and too many depressing examples of the folly & sinful weaknesses of humanity.