{"id":5888,"date":"2016-06-07T19:14:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T23:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2021-12-15T21:46:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:46:01","slug":"in-miladys-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5888","title":{"rendered":"In Milady’s Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Milady’s Chamber<\/a><\/em> (2006) Sheri Cobb South<\/p>\n

\"In<\/a>Set in London in ~1808<\/p>\n

Lady Fieldhurst finally decides to take a lover, however, she receives the unpleasant surprise of her husband in her bedroom–murdered.<\/p>\n

John Pickett, a new Bow Street Runner, is assigned to the case, although Mr. Colquhoun, his Magistrate, has misgivings about giving a murder case to such a young Runner.<\/p>\n

As with many historicals, we don’t get a very happy view of the wedded state.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuarrel is too strong a word for it. Certainly we were not in perfect charity with one another, but I believe such a state is not uncommon among married couples.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I enjoyed this book as an escape, but then I only paid $3.99 for it, which seems a reasonable price for a perfectly adequate mystery. If I’d paid more, I probably would have been irritated by things in this book, but for what I paid, it was a pleasant escape, and one I can recommend at that price. <\/p>\n

In fact, at that price, I purchased the second book.
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Belgrave House\/Regency Reads <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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John Pickett, a new Bow Street Runner, is assigned to the case, although Mr. Colquhoun, his Magistrate, has misgivings about giving a murder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,33,8],"tags":[547],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british","category-historical","category-mystery","tag-napoleonic-era"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1wY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":247,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/247","url_meta":{"origin":5888,"position":0},"title":"The Thief Taker","author":"Michelle","date":"May 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The Thief Taker: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner (2001) T.F. 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