Murder on Union Square (A Gaslight Mystery) by Victoria Thompson

"This Sarah Brandt mystery takes us to the original heart of the theater district in New York, where Sarah’s husband finds a dead actor who was legal guardian to the child the couple wants to adopt. The familiar cast of characters represent a delightful result of the melting pot that was America at the time. The Malloys are pretty well off now and Sarah is opening a clinic, but their friends and associates are a realistic mixture of ethnicities, when they are thrown into the world of the theater at the time. I enjoy reading (and writing) about the unexpected things you find out about the past, and here we get the “Syndicate” which was a group that took over the bookings for plays on the road. An aging actress is resisting the group and it is her leading man who is killed. I’m looking forward to a couple of bookstore appearances with Victoria Thompson in Chicago next week, and I think we share an interest in surprising women like Sarah Brandt who resisted the upper class world of Edith Wharton and Henry James to live lives that opened doors for those of us who came later. Also, this particular time period was a time of great changes in society, including the melting pot, that formed the world we grew up in. I like the way Sarah a widow from a wealthy background and Malloy a detective from a poor background with his deaf son manage to blend together to form a very American family....."

이전 작품들에 등장했던 인물들이 이번 작품에서 중요한 비중으로 다시 등장한다는 것이 재밌는 부분이다. 추리적 재미도 있고 작품에서 간접적으로 다루고 있는 역사적 배경도 흥미롭다. 영어 문장은 이전 작품들의 수준이고 관용적 표현은 등장하나 문맥상에서 의미를 파악할 수 있기 때문에 읽는데 큰 어려움은 없다. adoption, actor, actress, syndicate, scarf, quail, reporters, delivery, superstition, greedy, jealousy, bail, pigeonhole, prejudice, devotion, associates, family, cheating, locked-room trick, clinic, murders, falsely accused, selfish 등이 작품을 이해하는데 중요한 의미를 갖는 단어들이다.

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