A Pinchbeck Bride
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A young woman in Victorian finery is found strangled in Mingo House, a morbid brownstone and museum, a nineteenth-century time capsule in Boston's Back Bay. Dubbed the "Victorian Girl" by the media everywhere, she becomes the eye of a hurricane of publicity and speculation—and a darkness reaching back to the Mingoes' roots in England and to the builders of the mansion, a Civil War arms dealer and his séance-holding wife.
Boston comic Mark Winslow and the other trustees of Mingo House are divided as to whether the place is sustainable as a museum. Trustee chairman Rudy Schmitz, the brash entrepreneur, seems convinced that the porous roof and escalating rain damage will doom the place. Nadia Gulbenkian, the last of the old guard trustees, is accusing Rudy of engineering the museum's demise. Software executive Jon Kim and a dubious collector of saints' bones and art are pursuing their own clandestine agendas.
Mingo House itself seems cursed, for its origins in bullets and cannonballs and the family's reputation as regicides in the execution of King Charles I.
A number of people believe its walls conceal treasure, a stolen royal monstrance, and are willing to do anything to retrieve it.
In this sequel to The Fisher Boy, pierced college students clash with flawed Brahmin bluebloods, and the Gothic with the high-tech. As the deaths and threats multiply, one question resounds: which will survive this summer of rain, of deluge—Mingo House or its terrified staff?
Stephen Anable
Stephen Anable was born in Boston and graduated from Stanford and Harvard universities. His first novel in this series, The Fisher Boy, was published to acclaim in 2008. At various times during his life, he has been a standup comic, a journalist, an actor, a social worker, a scriptwriter, and the communications coordinator at a cemetery. He has two sons and lives in Massachusetts.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One thing that I found unique was that the sleuth is a stand-up comic. I think that this is a first for me amidst all the cozy mysteries that I have read.I really enjoyed this book immensely. I don’t think that the characters were as well rounded as I normally like, but then again it may be that this isn’t the first of the series and they assume that you read The Fisher Boy.However, I really liked the way that the mystery and drama unfurled throughout the book. So much that I actually read this book in one sitting.I think I will go back and read the first book. Just to see if I get a better perspective on the characters.In conjunction with the Wakela's World Disclosure Statement, I received a product in order to enable my review. No other compensation has been received. My statements are an honest account of my experience with the brand. The opinions stated here are mine alone.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mark Winslow is a history buff, so when he is asked to serve on the board of trustees for Mingo House, he agrees. Mingo House is a time capsule of sorts that preserves the Victorian era. The last heir of the Mingo family donated the house and all of its contents to become a museum. Mark is assigned a young docent, Genevieve Courso, to orient him to the house and its treasures.Mark likes the off-beat Genevieve and agrees to meet her at Mingo house before a trustees meeting. He discovers the corpse of Genevieve, dressed in Victorian finery and placed on display in the home's dining room. In death, Genevieve becomes a media sensation known as "the Victorian girl."Mark finds himself investigating Genevieve's life in an attempt to solve her murder. Was it another of the trustees, an unusual group? Was it a spurned lover, or the father of the child the coroner discoversshe was carrying? More murders occur, and the need to find the killer becomes more pressing.This is a very enjoyable mystery. Lovers of Boston and of history will enjoy this book; however, homophobes should be aware that the narrator and several other primary characters are gay.