What's the proper way for a Boston landlady to react when her most obnoxious boarder - curmudgeonly Barnwell Augustus Quiffen, gets squashed by a subway train? Sarah Kelling already has a far nicer applicant for the drawing room suite he lived in, but then an odd eye witness shows up on her doorstep, insisting somebody pushed Mr Quiffen under the train, and Sarah finds herself knee-deep in yet another mystery, aided by Max Bittersohn, an art expert with a very special sort of expertise...

Off to Canada to the winner of the Tea & Mystery Sweepstake
Congratulations carelaisa!

Got here today!

Many thanks for this book, along with the other one and the teas, and postcard :)

Looking forward to read it in the near future!

Another crime novel but more interesting than the previous ones I’ve read in the past weeks. The premise is a bit more interesting though not new: a young woman, recently widowed, starting a new business on her own (here a boarding house) and then, some of her tenants are found dead. But I liked it as the characters, in majority, were not over stereotyped. The storyline had a good flow, though at some moments, it had some lengths, but overall it was a nice read. I’m not sure though that I would read other novels by this author, as it took a bit too long, in my opinion, to have something major happen.

Sent to my birthday buddy, book no.2 of 2, with some small surprises.

Enjoy!

Oh a surprise parcel! Thank you so much carelaisa for the books, the lovely assortment of teas and vanilla latte, and the beautiful card! It really brightened my week. ^_^
This sounds like a fun mystery and I look forward to reading it. :)
(Edit: I like the creepy cover on the picture here, the one on the book looks a lot less scary haha)

I finished this a few days ago and quite enjoyed it. A bit slow maybe at times but very readable. The protagonist is a young woman recently widowed and penniless, though her family is part of the social upper class. To stay afloat, she takes on (wealthy) boarders when shortly after two of them die (both tenants of the drawing room).
There was also a lot of talk about restoring the Iolani Palace and Hawaiian royalty (who had visited Boston a long time ago, one of the tenants was obsessed with it). Never heard of the Iolani Palace and had to google it, so it was nice to learn something new.
When at the end the mystery was finally unraveled I was quite surprised, would never had guessed that.

On its way to New Zealand to a BCer who picked it out of the First Sentences VBB. :)
Hope you'll enjoy it!

Thank you Tsjara, the book has arrived, along with it's surprise travelling companion.
It looks interesting, so on to the TBR pile it goes :)

Slowly whittling down the stack of books to be read.
A good read with some interesting characters.

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