It’s back to the adult, more seasoned and experienced man in The Vanishing Man, by Charles Finch. This time there’s a missing painting (that shows up in a most unexpected place), a family secret (that might or might not involve William Shakespeare) and a mysterious new character who can find things when no one else can. I rather like him, he can just sort of blend into the background and go unseen. Once again Charles Lenox is up against ‘society’ and what is deemed proper behavior or manners. Good characters again, and a good mystery, too. This is part of the Charles Lenox Mystery series.

It’s the summer of 1924 and Britain is celebrating the Olympics. A young lawyer is found dead, having inhaled a deadly concoction of salt water. Why was he killed? And what are all the postcards (all blank, all the same picture) about? The Saltwater Murder is the seventh Posie Parker Mystery, by L.B. Hathaway.

Reading Hermit With Dog