Deadly Illumination: A Gilded Age Mystery

by Serena Stier

In the summer of 1890 in New York City, suffragette Florence Tod sets out to solve the mystery of the death by poisoning of a librarian. Following the instructions on a mysterious gold tablet, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930754078
• ISBN13: 9781930754072
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Durban House Publishing
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Deadly Illumination

The name Isabel Steward Gardner caught my interest having iived in the Boston area for many years and visiting her home, a gorgeous museum , I became interested in the person who created such a fantastic art collection. She was known to be quite a character and "Deadly Illumination," although fiction, gave quite an insight into her personality. Serina Stier's historical mystery novel is a great read , it keeps you guessing and her characters come alive It takes one on a trip back to a time of formality and splendor.I enjoyed the story and feel I was able to really understand the personality of a woman who captured my interest.

Deadly Illumination

I found this book not only entertaining, but a delightful window into the Victorian era. The interplay of characters was wonderfully woven into a delightful read that encompassed intrigue, womens rights, poverty and crime and it's punishment or not. Can the wealthy buy their way out of crime? Read and you determine.....

Excited by Deadly Illumination

This book is a charming and suspenseful mystery story set mainly in New York City in the early 1890s. It gets off to a quick start when the protagonist, a young woman named Florence and her aunt, Isabella Stuart Gardner (yes, the founder of the museum in Boston, fictionalized), discover a dead body next to an illuminated manuscript in Pierpont Morgan's (yes, THE banker's) library. Pressed by Isabella, Florence becomes a detective compelled to find the murderer as she confronts Morgan, the uppercrust of Manhattan society, and the tawdry underground, too. The suspense builds well, and the climax is surely worth the trip. Kudos to Stier on her first mystery!