The Daughters of Gentlemen
A Frances Doughty Mystery
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May 6, 2013
In Stratmann’s diverting second Frances Doughty mystery (after 2012’s The Poisoned Seed), Frances takes on her first professional case as a detective. Concerned fathers engage Frances to find out who has been hiding a pamphlet entitled “Why Marry?,” anonymously penned by “A Friend to Women,” inside the students’ textbooks at the Bayswater Academy for the Education of Young Ladies. When the school’s housemaid, Matilda Springett, is found murdered, it becomes clear to Frances and Mary, her maid and friend, that the case is more serious. Vivid details and convincing period dialogue bring to life Victorian England during the early days of the women’s suffrage movement, which increasingly appeals to Frances even as she strives for acceptance from the male-dominated society of the time. Historical mystery fans will be hooked.
August 1, 2013
New PI Frances Doughty is hired to find out who slipped inflammatory feminist pamphlets into schoolgirls' desks at an upscale London academy. The school administrators want to quell any tone of impropriety about the incident since one of them is a candidate in the upcoming 1880 parliamentary election. Well, Frances is not one to squelch the truth, and she doggedly pursues her clues. Suspiciously, one of the school's maids, Matilda, disappears. The staff is ready to blame Matilda for the pamphlet incident, but when Frances finds her murdered body, she knows that much more is at stake than rhetoric. Politics, the women's suffrage movement, and confusion over family identities all whirl together to create a complex challenge for diligent Frances. VERDICT Known for her true crime writing (Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion), Stratmann has neatly turned that expertise into a winning series; this follows her mystery debut, The Poisonous Seed. The story unfolds slowly and deliberately and aptly demonstrates the author's awareness of Victorian society's mores. Her wit will reward readers who stay with the elaborate plot.
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