This isn't highbrow literature, but I sure did enjoy it. The third in the series featuring Sebastian St. Cyr, this one has the daughter of his archenemy Lord Jarvis asking his help in solving the murder of a group of reformed prostitutes and involves some uncomfortable Victorian "gentlemen's" practices. The mystery, which begins simply, soon becomes convoluted and complicated and ends a bit abruptly, but it's the character of St. Cyr and others together with the historical details that I love the most.