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Title: PLEASANT NEW SERIES
Review: Other reviewers have pretty well covred the substance of this first volume in a series of Victorian mysteries written by two Americans. My evaluation is manifest in the fact that I am now pursuing the remainder of the series. The authors write well and, at least in this volume, try to make the characters and story bear the weight of interest rather than relying solely on murder or murders to provide a puzzzle upon which to focus. They succeed in this effort. While not a Sayers, Allingham or Marsh, they produce a quickly read, neat package, with an attractive pair of detectives who, in this first in the series, still don't realize that they have been fated to be a pair.
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