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Title: The Curse of the House of Foskett
Subtitle: The Gower Street Detective, Book 2
Author: M. R. C. Kasasian
Narrator: Lindy Nettleton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 01-15-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 61 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective
Publisher's Summary:
The highly anticipated second novel in the charming, sharply plotted Victorian crime series starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson
125 Gower Street, 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, emerging in 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 reinsert his glass eye. His ward, March Middleton, has been left to dine alone.
Then an eccentric member of a 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 house in Kew and to the mysterious Baroness Foskett.
Members Reviews:
Great story marred by gratuitousness
I am definitely enjoying this series with one large caveat: I find the gory descriptions on the gratuitous side. I'm a seasoned reader of mysteries and police procedurals in all their gory detail, and I also recognize the importance of historical accuracy, however ugly. Still, in my opinion, the author seems almost to revel in prolonged and unnecessary gruesomeness.
Furthermore, while I acknowledge that I'm a wimp when it comes to descriptions of animal cruelty, it seems to me that even a more hardened reader might find the salacious (and relatively frequent) depictions of such incidents in these books a bit over the top. Kasasian makes his point early on, no need to belabor it.
It's a shame, because it mars for me what is, in all other ways, a terrific new series.
Read "The Mangle Street Murders" first
It's needed for context, otherwise you'll miss a lot here.
That having been said, this book proves a good sequel, though my fourth star includes Lindy Nettleton's awesome narration; the plot itself is really three stars, especially as there are regular flashbacks to March's time in India that detracted for me, especially in audio where they appeared almost randomly without any notice. Still, it's great to see Sidney and March's characters grow (though Sidney does his best to hide that). One of the best scenes was March (who had been raised in India) bravely facing an English dish of "curried vegetables" that bore as much relation to the original as passing off a can of Dinty Moore beef stew as "homemade Russian stroganoff."
Shocker of an ending makes the next book a Must Read!
Enjoyed this book.
I love the characters in this book. The relationship between the main characters is very interesting. I hope there is another sequel.
Better than the first go around, but not quite there yet
I read the first in this series and thought that book was awful. It was a bad parody of Sherlock Holmes. I decided to give the author one more try, and while this book is better than the first,?it remains a bad parody of Sherlock Holmes with a couple of love stories thrown in for no apparent reason.
Grice's at his best or does that mean his worst?
Grice is in a funk after the debacle he made in the Mangled Street Murders (MSM). As a man who thinks very highly of himself and equates intelligence with social status and gender.
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Title: The Curse of the House of Foskett
Subtitle: The Gower Street Detective, Book 2
Author: M. R. C. Kasasian
Narrator: Lindy Nettleton
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 01-15-15
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 61 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective
Publisher's Summary:
The highly anticipated second novel in the charming, sharply plotted Victorian crime series starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson
125 Gower Street, 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, emerging in 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 reinsert his glass eye. His ward, March Middleton, has been left to dine alone.
Then an eccentric member of a 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 house in Kew and to the mysterious Baroness Foskett.
Members Reviews:
Great story marred by gratuitousness
I am definitely enjoying this series with one large caveat: I find the gory descriptions on the gratuitous side. I'm a seasoned reader of mysteries and police procedurals in all their gory detail, and I also recognize the importance of historical accuracy, however ugly. Still, in my opinion, the author seems almost to revel in prolonged and unnecessary gruesomeness.
Furthermore, while I acknowledge that I'm a wimp when it comes to descriptions of animal cruelty, it seems to me that even a more hardened reader might find the salacious (and relatively frequent) depictions of such incidents in these books a bit over the top. Kasasian makes his point early on, no need to belabor it.
It's a shame, because it mars for me what is, in all other ways, a terrific new series.
Read "The Mangle Street Murders" first
It's needed for context, otherwise you'll miss a lot here.
That having been said, this book proves a good sequel, though my fourth star includes Lindy Nettleton's awesome narration; the plot itself is really three stars, especially as there are regular flashbacks to March's time in India that detracted for me, especially in audio where they appeared almost randomly without any notice. Still, it's great to see Sidney and March's characters grow (though Sidney does his best to hide that). One of the best scenes was March (who had been raised in India) bravely facing an English dish of "curried vegetables" that bore as much relation to the original as passing off a can of Dinty Moore beef stew as "homemade Russian stroganoff."
Shocker of an ending makes the next book a Must Read!
Enjoyed this book.
I love the characters in this book. The relationship between the main characters is very interesting. I hope there is another sequel.
Better than the first go around, but not quite there yet
I read the first in this series and thought that book was awful. It was a bad parody of Sherlock Holmes. I decided to give the author one more try, and while this book is better than the first,?it remains a bad parody of Sherlock Holmes with a couple of love stories thrown in for no apparent reason.
Grice's at his best or does that mean his worst?
Grice is in a funk after the debacle he made in the Mangled Street Murders (MSM). As a man who thinks very highly of himself and equates intelligence with social status and gender.