When it is confirmed that her sister did not survive the Arctic, Maude is secretly given her sister’s journal by a sympathetic representative within the Admiralty. She determines to discover and expose the truth.
Top Ten Tuesday: Things That Make Me Want To Read A Book
Top Ten Tuesday: The topics, themes, and settings that make me immediately interested in a book.
REVIEW: THE WICKED BOY by Kate Summerscale
I think this is Summerscale’s best to date. I devoured this one in less than 24 hours. Two normal boys, not yet in their teens, play at truancy and go to Lord’s Cricket Grounds to watch a match. Harmless fun, really. The elder brother has just aged out of the mandatory school age anyway. What’s peculiar…
REVIEW: DID SHE KILL HIM?
Stuck in the airport? Stuck with the in-laws? Feeling a bit murderous? Escape with this engrossing true (mainly unsolved) crime from Victorian England, with its roots in the American South. Florence Chandler, every inch the southern belle, took a steamer from New York to Liverpool in 1880. Her gold-digging mother planned to shop her on the…
REVIEW: INVENTION OF MURDER by Judith Flanders
Despite the title, this delightful tome is nearly 500 pages of salacious details of crime and murder in Victorian England — plus almost 100 pages of notes, bibliography and index. For someone like me, it’s a treasure trove of the ignoble and infamous. I admit, I got a little giddy when the book arrived. It…