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IN A HAVEN FOR FALLEN WOMEN, HAS HISTORY’S MOST DEPRAVED KILLER RISEN AGAIN?The Back Bay has been filled in. Palm readers and prostitutes manipulate their trade in South Cove. And a slogan of a day is “NINA:” No Irish Need Apply. Boston in 1892 is a city of Victorian pride, prejudice, and private passions.
Now, on Beacon Hill, a apostolic lady and her stately brother, Addington, are questioning dual gruesome murders of immature women, a work, contend police, of “a demented person.” For Caroline Ames, elucidate a poser is a matter of assisting an aged friend, a lady who runs a home for careless women famous as Bertram’s Bower. But for Addington, a review will lead to a revelations of a intimately alluring, scandal-struck actress...and to a secrets of some of Boston’s many “respectable” men.
As Addington confronts a pomposity of Brahmin society, he moves closer to a intolerable guess about a killer’s identity. And as fear grips a city, a justification points in one frightening direction: that London’s Jack a Ripper is alive, well, and murdering again. . .
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #535435 in eBooks
- Published on: 2008-12-24
- Released on: 2008-12-24
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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From Library Journal
Ripper-like murders of "wayward" women in Victorian Boston attract a courtesy of a brother-and-sister sleuthing team, who, with their surgeon/boarder, step in where military will not since of anti-Irish sentiment. Addington and Caroline Ames wish a killer held so that liaison will not tighten down Bertram's Bower, a preserve for depressed women run by a crony of Caroline. Suspects embody an Irish teen who works during a shelter, a clergyman/brother of a owner, Irish squad members, and maybe a military themselves. Picturesque characterizations, plain plotting, and good duration atmosphere suggest this second Beacon Hill poser (after The Death of Colonel Mann) to all collections.
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Peale (The Death of Colonel Mann, 2000) earnings to Victorian Boston, where pledge sleuths Caroline and Addington Ames and their boarder, Dr. John McKenzie, examine a murders of dual residents of Bertram's Bower, a home for careless women. Agatha Montgomery, Caroline's friend, runs a home, and her brother, a Reverend Montgomery, raises supports for it. There is no necessity of suspects: a typewriter salesman, a immature Irish newcomer who works as a handyman during a home, and a dame who seems to depreciate both a residents of a Bower and all men. Or maybe Jack a Ripper lived to cranky a pond. The hunt for clues takes readers on a debate of Boston's firm society, with a category distinctions, influence opposite a flourishing Irish newcomer population, and narrowly tangible women's roles. Peale, a pseudonym of Nancy Zaroulis, has finished her examine and combined a glorious mural of Boston and a inhabitants in 1892. Strongly endorsed for chronological friendly fans. Barbara Bibel
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“A fascinating chronological tale...A glorious who-done-it.”
–Midwest Book Review
“Picturesque characterizations, plain plotting, and good duration atmosphere...”
–Library Journal
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1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
Victorian Boston--mixing correct with murder--great fun
By booksforabuck
Has Jack a Ripper changed from London to chase on reforming prostitutes vital in Bertram's Bower? When dual are found brutally slashed to death, Victorian Boston goes into panic. Fearing her childhood friend's rescue goal will be destroyed, Caroline Ames army her hermit Addington and crony MacKenzie to assistance her investigate--despite antithesis from a military and even her friend.
Cynthia Peale does an glorious pursuit presenting characters that are both plausible in a context of a Victorian era, and still sensitive in a possess day. She brings in adequate story for season though strenuous a reader with research.
The poser is good crafted (although it is not generally formidable to theory a perpetrator) and good seasoned both with a chronological fact and also with a clever regretful element. MacKenzie is totally feeling with Caroline, nonetheless can't simply announce his affection. Addington has an even some-more critical problem--he admires an singer with a shameful past. This, of course, would be totally inappropriate.
Peale does a glorious pursuit creation her 3 primary characters sympathetic. When they are put in risk by their continued investigations, a reader unequivocally cares.
Well done.
1 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
A winner
By Harriet Klausner
In 1892 South End Boston, military officer Joseph Flynn discovers a horribly slashed physique of twenty year aged Mary Flaherty. The plant worked as a secretary to Agatha Montgomery, a conduct of Bertram's Bower, a place for careless women. Mary lived in a Bower. The subsequent evening, someone brutally murders Mary's roommate Bridget Brown in a same manner.
Besides her nearby mental fall from shock, Agatha's repute as good as that of her hermit Reverend Randolph Montgomery takes a violence with a dual homicides. Her tighten crony Caroline Ames, a once a week clergyman during Bertram's Bower, persuades her hermit Addington to examine a murders even yet Inspector Crippen will object. With a assistance of their limit Dr. John MacKenzie, a sleuths start to uncover dim secrets that place a courageous contingent during risk of apropos a subsequent victims.
MURDER AT BERTRAM'S BOWER, a second Ames Victorian poser (see THE DEATH OF COLONEL MANN) is a fascinating chronological story that brings a happy nineties to life. Although a use of tangible past events and equipment supplement abyss to a tale, a tract go to a characters, generally Caroline, who are warm, lively, and caring. The subplot of a budding intrigue between Caroline and John enlarge a feel of authenticity. The budding romance, along with a glorious who-done-it will interest to sub-genre fans.
Harriet Klausner
0 of 0 people found a following examination helpful.
Good new series
By S. R. Schnur
This is a second book in a "Beacon Hill Series." The initial book is "The Death of Colonel Mann." The subsequent book, that we will really read, is "The White Crow."
Boston was always a many "upright" of a American cities, and a Victorian duration exacerbated this tendency. This is a credentials for this series. The author catches a tinge of a times and provides a good tract with a smallest spirit of a intrigue in a offing. we figured out who a killer was, though that in no approach marred a story. we favourite this book somewhat improved than a initial that we also liked. This means this is not one of those array that starts with a good book and goes downhill from there.
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