Started: 6 Feb. 2013
Finished: 9 Feb. 2013
Pages: 305
Okay, you know that feeling you get when you have chocolate for breakfast or chips for supper? Oh so good, but after a while, really not so good?
I am on a junk book binge. More or less. Yes, this is another mystery. And I can't even claim that I'm reading much else in the background for balance. (Just Sibley's Birding Basics, and that's more of an ongoing study than a read-through kind of book).
But at least this is quite a good historical mystery, set in Georgian England. The hero is an orphan boy who assists Sir John Fielding. Fielding was the blind magistrate of Bow Street who founded and led the first professional English police force, the Bow Street Runners.
In this book Fielding and Jeremy encounter the rather more quixotic justice system of the Royal Navy as they attempt to assist in the investigation of a murder at sea. The Navy comes off rather the worse than it does in Patrick O'Brian's books.
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