M.R.C. Kasasian. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-60598-669-2
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. Since the brilliant and eccentric Sidney Grice, who bills himself as a personal detective,
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M.R.C. Kasasian. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-60598-971-6
Set in London in 1883, Kasasian’s exceptional third outing for personal (i.e., private) detective Sidney Grice (after 2015’s The Curse of the House of Foskett) opens on a somber note, with a preface by Grice explaining that he had to finish the...
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M.R.C. Kasasian. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (512p) ISBN 978-1-68177-358-2
Kasasian’s fourth Victorian-era whodunit featuring the misanthropic Sidney Grice and his ward, March Middleton, falls short of the high standard set by such previous entries as 2016’s Death Descends on Saturn Villa, which cleverly integrated humor...
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M.R.C. Kasasian. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-68177-564-7
Kasasian’s fifth Victorian-era novel featuring “personal detective” Sidney Grice and Grice’s ward, March Middleton, shows him back at the top of his game after 2016’s disappointing The Secrets of Gaslight Lane. Geraldine Hockaday, the daughter of a...
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M.R.C. Kasasian. Head of Zeus (IPG, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-78497-815-0
Awkward attempts at humor and a dull plot mar this spinoff from Kasasian’s Gower Street series (Dark Dawn over Steep House, etc.). Betty Church, the goddaughter of eccentric detective Sidney Grice’s ward, March Middleton, has fulfilled her childhood
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M.R.C. Kasasian. Head of Zeus (IPG, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-78854-641-6
Set in 1940, Kasasian’s uneven sequel to Betty Church and the Suffolk Vampire finds Church, an inspector in East Suffolk who lost a hand in the line of duty in London, still adjusting to life as a rare female police officer and plagued by sexist and
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