Status Updates From A Gentlewoman's Guide to Mu...

In early chapters and Audible free end 7/22. Might DNF bc it's kind of darker than a typical cozy.

If the knife was found outside the Claybourne residence, then, who left it there? Does it make sense that Simeon would commit murder if he owns "The Prattler"? That leaves Benjamin Hargreaves...but what's his "tie" to trafficking, unless there's something else? Story has gotten convoluted in terms of "grapevine" gossip - who heard what, and who went where and why - and Mrs. Claybourne's role in her husband's murder.

So, is it clear? Who did it, we mean of course? I'm thinking Mr. Wilkins has a limp, so he visited Sir Henry the night of his murder. But who was he with, Mr. Dunstable of the Pentonville Home for Unfortunate Children, since the trafficking of girls apparently occurs under the Maidenhead Canal Company? However, the manner of murder suggests Hargreaves or Simeon? Why would Simeon murder if Emmeline works for him?

Mr. Lessington seems forthright toward Miss St. Germaine: "I dissemble, too, except within the bosom of my little circle." He knows she is The Prattler's Rogue, and wishes to lift up her skirt to find - a knife? Is he accusing the Avengeress, or simply "Lessing" a woman who rescues girls? Is he the murderer? Mr. Hargreaves? Because what did Fanny see? There's Kaufmann's button: would a radical newspaper owner do it?