Murder at the Masquerade
Reeks: Cassie Pengear Mysteries
L. A. Nisula
- When
- Cassie
- Pengear’s
- cousin
- Milly
- invites
- her
- to
- a
- masquerade
- ball
- at
- the
- Melpomene
- Theatre,
- her
- first
- instinct
- is
- to
- say
- no.
- The
- last
- party
- Milly
- had
- invited
- her
- to
- ended
- in
- murder,
- and
- these
- tickets
- came
- from
- one
- of
- Milly’s
- gentlemen
- callers,
- never
- a
- good
- sign.
- But
- dressing
- up
- for
- a
- Halloween
- masquerade
- at
- a
- theater
- did
- sound
- fun,
- so
- she
- agrees.
- And
- the
- masquerade
- is
- fun,
- until
- someone
- discovers
- a
- body.
- With
- Inspector
- Burrows
- in
- charge,
- Cassie
- figures
- the
- case
- is
- in
- good
- hands
- and
- out
- of
- hers,
- until
- Milly
- drags
- them
- into
- investigating
- the
- murder
- at
- the
- masquerade.In
- a
- Victorian
- England
- that
- almost
- existed,
- a
- steampunk
- London
- where
- tinkerers
- and
- clockwork
- devices
- exist
- alongside
- hansom
- cabs
- and
- corsets,
- murder
- is
- still
- solved
- by
- traditional
- observation
- and
- intuition.
- This
- is
- the
- London
- where
- American
- typist
- Cassandra
- Pengear
- finds
- herself
- stumbling
- over
- corpses
- and
- helping
- Scotland
- Yard
- detectives
- solve
- murders
- (although
- they
- inexplicably
- prefer
- to
- call
- it
- interfering).
- Follow
- her
- adventures
- in
- the
- Cassie
- Pengear
- Mystery
- series,
- beginning
- with
- The
- Killing
- at
- the Carnival.
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