The Curse of the House of Foskett - (Gower St. Detective) by M R C Kasasian (Paperback)

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Book 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 . . .

Review Quotes

"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."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"In his second adventure, private detective Sidney Grice perks up when a visitor dies in his study; finally he and his ward, March Middleton, have a new mystery to solve that will draw them to an eerie house and the enigmatic Baroness Foskett."--Library Journal

"A fast-paced, witty book. Although the parallels are unmistakable, Grice and Middleton are refreshingly different from Holmes and Watson."--Shelf Awareness

"One of the most delightful and original new novels of the year--this series could well become a cult."--The Daily Mail