The Curse of the House of Foskett – The Gower Street Detective: Book 2 (Gower St. Detective) - Softcover

Kasasian, M. R. C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605989703 ISBN 13: 9781605989709

Publisher: Pegasus, 2017

Synopsis

125 GOWER STREET, LONDON: 1882.

Sidney Grice once had a reputation as London’s most perspicacious personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent man to the gallows, business has been light. Listless and depressed, Grice has taken to lying in the bath for hours, emergingin the evenings for a little dry toast and a lot of tea. Usually a voracious reader, he will pick up neither book nor newspaper. He has not even gathered the strength to re-insert his glass eye. His ward, March Middleton, has been left to dine alone.

Then an eccentric member of the Final Death Society has the temerity to die on his study floor. Finally, Sidney and March have an investigation to mount—an investigation that will draw them to an eerie manor house, and the mysterious Baroness Foskett . . .

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Review:

Kasasian deepens the mystery of the relationship between his decidedly non-Holmes and Watson duo in his superior second whodunit set in late Victorian London. Kasasian again successfully blends the gruesome and the humorous.

A fast-paced, witty book. While March must overcome both the prejudices of those who see her as "mere Miss Middleton" Grice has to readjust his ideas about the intelligence and capability of women as he begins to accept his goddaughter as a possible assistant. Although the parallels are unmistakable, Grice and Middleton are refreshingly different from Holmes and Watson.

One of the most delightful and original new novels of the year--the first in a series that could well become a cult.

About the Author:

M. R. C. Kasasian is the author of The Mangle Street Murders, The Curse of the House of Foskett, Death Descends on Saturn Villa, and The Secrets of Gaslight Lane, all available from Pegasus Crime. He divides his time between Suffolk and Malta.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pegasus
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1605989703
• ISBN 13: 9781605989709
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320