under_the_silk_tree | The Case of the Murdered Muckraker & The Mystery of the Moving Image

My Twenty-Second book for

ljbookbingo is The Case of the Murdered Muckraker by Carola Dunn for #40 A Book Set in Your Country, card found here:

In late 1923, the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, come to America for a honeymoon visit. In the midst of a pleasure trip, however, both work in a bit of business - Alec travels to Washington, D. C. to consult with the U.S. government, Daisy to New York to meet with her American magazine editor. After her late morning meeting, Daisy agrees to accompany her editor, Mr. Thorwald, to lunch but as they are leaving the offices, they hear a gun shot and see a man plummeting down an elevator shaft. The man killed was one of her fellow residents at the Chelsea Hotel, Otis Carmody, who was a journalist with no end of enemies - personal and professional - who would delight in his death. ~Goodreads description

I have to say this one was just okay. It wasn't as good as some of the others. The mystery never really gripped me and the killer turned out to be very obvious. Also there was this odd across the country airplane chase that seemed to stretch credibility. Will continue to read this series but this one was a bit of a disappointment for me.

My Twenty-Third book for

ljbookbingo is The Mystery of the Moving Image by C.S. Poe for #28 A Book that is Part of a Series, card found here:

It’s summer in New York City, and antique shop owner Sebastian Snow is taking the next big step in his relationship with homicide detective, Calvin Winter: they’re moving in together. What should have been a wonderful week of playing house and celebrating Calvin’s birthday comes to an abrupt end when a mysterious package arrives at the Emporium. Inside is a Thomas Edison Kinetoscope, a movie viewer from the nineteenth century, invented by the grandfather of modern cinema, W. K. L. Dickson. And along with it, footage of a murder that took place over a hundred years ago. ~Goodreads Description

I just grow more and more in love with Sebastian the further along I get in this series. Several of his smartass comments actually had me chuckling out loud. I am also loving his relationship with Calvin they are so in love and it is so great to read about a healthy established relationship because I hate relationship drama. The mystery as always was a good one and kept me interested til the end. This book maybe should have been called Sebastian and the terrible, no good, very bad day, because he definitely had a time of it in this book. Not only is he struggling with his achromatopsia (total color blindness), he is attacked on several occasions, and that is only the beginning of them many things that go south for him. The only criticism I really have is that the ending felt a bit rushed but other then that it was really good. I will be reading next one!