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If you can accept as a protagonist a best-selling author of early-nineteenth-century mysteries that star a handsome viscount and his loyal sidekick, and then further posit that her lace-cuffed dandies materialize in her Manhattan apartment, you might enjoy this cheerful whodunnit. Maggie Kelly's ex-boyfriend and current publisher, in trying to win her personal and professional loyalty, invited himself to dinner at her place. Unfortunately for Maggie, he left her apartment via an ambulance, and she is a suspect as he hovers near death. Fortunately for Maggie, sort of, her fully embodied sleuths have arrived in 2003 and are intent on doing what they were created to do, solve crimes: in this case, discover who tried to kill Kirk Toland and why Maggie was framed. Of course, first our heroes need proper clothes-and proper attitudes. A dashing nobleman in some ways is better on paper than in person. He's used to valets, maids, and a full wallet (rather sloppy and expensive to have hanging around your home) and inclined toward stunts that get him on the evening news, such as jumping on the back of a runaway carriage horse in Central Park, while Maggie would prefer her creations to be more inconspicuous while she figures out what to do with them. This book may be a little closer to a romance than to a mystery. Maggie is trying to get a cheating former heartthrob out of her life as she finishes writing the latest in her series, her fictional epitome of masculine attractiveness has turned into nonfiction, and she is drawn to the rumpled police detective investigating her. Still, it's carried off in proper fashion, and our viscount summons all the suspects together in classic style.
Reviewed by Joy Matkowski, July 2003
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