Four-star review of Murder
at the Mortuary by Lee Strauss
This is the fifth in the
Ginger Gold series about an heiress in 1920’s London. Intrepid Lady Gold is on
her first official case with help from her pathology student friend Haley, who
discovered the first body in the mortuary without an identification tag. With
Chief Inspector Basil Reed trying to make a go again with his estranged wife,
she can’t rely on him. There are enough suspects who could have removed the
tags from the first and succeeding bodies. Throw in a connection to the Mafia
and a horse-breeding farm, as well as several interesting characters, and
there’s enough of a plot and plot twists for this not-so-cozy historical murder
mystery. And through it all we see instances of Ginger’s generosity and also examples
of the attitudes, fashion and ambience of the time period.
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