Review: Mystery with Manners
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2013
Slightly contrived plot in upper-class, late Victorian New York:  a fair bit of swooning still going on, and the things you could be blackmailed for back then are amusing to us today.  But it still works as a puzzle and is excellent as a piece of "period" descriptive writing.  Slightly disappointing ending - "we was robbed!" you might say, and yet the ending is, at the very least, unusual.  I liked it on many levels, and would recommend it to palates jaded by endless contemporary blood-and-guts or forensics-based murder mysteries.