Curse of the House of Foskett

The highly anticipated second novel in the charming, sharplyplotted Victorian crime series starring a detective duo to rival Holmes andWatson125 Gower Street, 1882. Sidney Grice once had a reputationas London's most perspicacious personal detective. But since his last case ledan innocent man to the gallows, business has been light. Listless anddepressed, Grice has taken to lying in the bath for hours, emerging in theevenings 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 thestrength to reinsert his glass eye. His ward, March Middleton, has been leftto dine alone.Then an eccentric member of a Final Death Society has thetemerity to die on his study floor. Finally Sidney and March have aninvestigation to mount-an investigation that will draw them to an eerie housein Kew and to the mysterious Baroness Foskett.