What an utterly charming mystery! I really enjoyed this book, coincidentally a mystery set in the 1890s. This time our plucky detective is Harriet Morrow, a character I definitely want to read more about. The book cover says "Harriet Morrow Investigates" so I am hoping this is the beginning of a series, and if so I will happily read all the books. Highly recommended.
HOWEVER, I do wish the authors of books set in this time period would learn a little more about phonographs, gramophones, cylinders, 78 rpm records, etc. (The previous Book Box book was guilty of this too, I'm not picking on this author). For one thing, volume control was not a thing in this era. In fact, the origin of the expression "put a sock in it" is dampening the sound on a gramophone by cramming something (possibly a sock) into the horn to make the sound softer. Also, recordings in this era were short, and records were generally 1 song long - there were no such things as "albums" where a recording would play for more than, say, about 3 minutes. SOURCE: I own a gramophone from the early 20th century :) Again, I am not picking on this author at all, I loved the book, it's just some extra detail for accuracy :)
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