Back in 1817 there was a Society who hosted Seasons. Society is what you would call the higher-class folks back in the 1800s, and a Season is when all these folks got together to host parties, dinners, and the like in order for men to meet eligible women to be their wives (interesting concept). Of course, the lower-class women hoped to hide their inadequacies in order to be chosen as a wife, and some families (it seemed to me) prearranged for their relatives to be wed. Some marriages were (obviously) for convenience and social standing – not always happily.
Edmund (Eddy) Winter was a serviceman back in his day and is now
what is termed a ‘gentleman,’ who is an investigator of sorts, which is the
basis of this tale – his investigative efforts to discover how Cornelia
Silverton came to suffer a terrible tragedy. Not to mention Beryl, a housemaid,
being thrown into the mix. In his pursuit of the truth, he encounters all sorts
of different characters – both good and bad – some he knew, some were new
acquaintances during this particular Season.
The lady I was most intrigued with was Barbara Lightwood. She is a
woman who had to earn, if you will, her position in Society. She also had an
interesting relationship with Winter.
You have to remember that back in the 1800s there were certain
protocols that folks had to follow. Some things were said without actually
being said, rather folks talked in a bit of a coded language that Winter had to
decipher.
It was interesting to me how Winter was able to keep up with all
the tidbits he uncovered throughout his quest of the truth. You also have to
remember that back in his time there was no internet, no cell phones, no
computers, no cars (transportation being horse and buggy). It was just good
old-fashioned detective work that led Winter to the end of the case he was
working on, including Bert (the man he employed to run errands for him).
I especially enjoyed the scenarios where Winter was with certain
women and he almost always said something that could be construed in a way that
he did not mean. He seemed the sort of man who wanted to let women down gently
and wasn’t one to want to settle down or be chosen to do so during this
particular Season.
I was having a hard time keeping up with all the ‘clues’ that
Winter was uncovering and was quite surprised at the final whodunnit. I hadn’t
figured it out and didn’t even venture a guess. This tale is heavy with
historical tidbits which made it a rather ‘heavy’ read (at least for me), but
overall, I got a chuckle out of some of the situations Winter found himself in,
especially with the women who found him a good catch.
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Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed this one myself. :-)
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