The Murder at World's End by Ross MontgomeryMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The first in a projected period mystery series focusing on a young man named Stephen Pike, fresh out of prison for a crime he didn't commit, and the gloriously foul-mouthed elder Lady Decima Stockingham feels both timeless and modern at the same time. Set in a meteorologically moody estate in Cornwall in 1910, Stephen and Lady Decima are soon forced to follow a classic locked-room mystery - the death of Decima's brother, who ordered the entire manse sealed off because he believed Halley's Comet would toxify the earth in its transit. Sadly, scientific stupidity remains alive and well today, and the story could almost be set in the present day with little change as a result. Unlike the last time the internet really pushed a new mystery series - Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone in my Family Has Killed Someone - I'd say this time, the internet marketing machine got it right.
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