The Mesmerist's Apprentice
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Narrated by:
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Phyllida Nash
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By:
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L M Jackson
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When the enigmatic Sarah Tanner re-opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms soon after a disastrous fire, the gossips of Leather Lane grudgingly admit she has ‘the luck of the devil’. Yet when a local butcher is falsely accused of a heinous offence, selling horse-meat, it seems her luck has run out… Drawn into an ever more dangerous series of confrontations with a gang of youths who seem determined to put an innocent man out of business, Sarah Tanner’s own livelihood looks set for ruin into the bargain.
But what links the persecution of a humble butcher with a certain Dr. Stead – a leading practitioner of the strange art of mesmerism – and a desperate plea from Sarah’s former lover, the aristocrat Arthur DeSalle? As Mrs. Tanner investigates, she increasingly fears that the mesmerist, patronised by the highest in society, is a charlatan and his latest patient, the unwitting victim of a grotesque fraud. To preserve a family’s honour, Sarah Tanner sets out upon a trail of suicide, murder, deception and deceit which stretches from the alleys of Leather Lane to the drawing-rooms of Mayfair. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she seems to be putting herself in danger…
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- Hi Ho Silver
- 18-12-23
Cob Cobbled Cobblers
Good narration of a dreary pedestrian collection of what seem to be short stories cobbled together to form a "novel".
All armies until modern times, would've gone very hungry indeed if not for a diet of equidae from fallen beasts in battle. As the French will attest horse meat is fine, fat free and delicious, and almost impossible to detect from bovine without a dna test as many supermarkets found out in 2010. As a horse lover, and long time owner, I felt it my duty to sample the meat when in France.
At 2.5hrs in I have yet to encounter "The Mesmerists Apprentice" for which I chose the book.
In 1928 woman got the right to vote, The Married Women's Property Act 1870 allowed property which a wife earned through her own work or inherited to be regarded as her separate property, so to have a woman in the Regency times investigating and expecting to be taken seriously in law is very unlikely indeed. As there is no "love" story the whole premises of the book is reduced a gossip putting her nose where not wanted.
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