Murder on Black Swan Lane by Andrea PenroseMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Just started this series. The setting is Regency London, a time of great advances in Industry. The characters are intellectual, witty and daring. A widow living in the London ghettos has taken in two of the street ruffians, Raven and his brother, Hawk--who is simply adorable. With their shrewdness and familiarity with the alleys the boys are able to provide Charlotte Sloane with information she is able to use in her satirical cartoons which poke at the highest level of society and amuse the common folk. One of these cartoons attract the attention of Lord Wrexford, a chemist, who finds himself the principle suspect in the murder of a prominent clergyman, since said man seems to have been the victim of chemical burns and distortion. This combination of two intelligent people from different strata of society working together to clear Wrexford and the setting and the history of chemical science all combine to make this a very exciting and compelling mystery indeed!
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