Thomas always has incredibly strong secondary characters, and I hope some of the ones who appear in Cold Street will return. It advances the relationships between a number of characters, although most satisfyingly that of Charlotte and Lord Ingram. I am already a big fan of the series, but I was incredibly impressed by this latest book. Despite that, the gang begins their task, endeavoring to uncover the truth and save the inspector from the hangman’s noose by Christmas. Matters look pretty bleak, to put it frankly. It actually gets worse: the two dead men are associated with Alice, one is her late father’s business partner, and the other works for her at her company, Cousins Manufacturing. It is fortunate that Charlotte is on the case, as the evidence is pretty damning: Treadles was found in a locked room, with two dead men, holding a gun and covered in blood. His wife, Alice, is convinced of his innocence, and engages Holmes and her associates to discover the truth of the matter. Inspector Treadles, an ally to the Holmes gang and a friend of Lord Ingram, has been accused of murder. The end of the last book, The Art of Theft, left readers on a cliff-hanger. However, not so with this novel, an adventure that takes the intrepid Charlotte Holmes to a new part of London, where mysterious murders in the form of a locked-door mystery present themselves. The dynamics between characters can become stale, or fail to evolve, and the excitement wanes. Charlotte finds herself in a case strewn with lies and secrets.Normally, at this point in a series ( Murder on Cold Street is the fifth in the Lady Sherlock series) I start to lose interest or forget all of the events of the previous books.
Treadles of harboring deeper feelings for one of the men? To make matters worse, he refuses to speak on his own behalf, despite the overwhelming evidence against him. Had Inspector Treadles killed the men because they had opposed his wife’s initiatives at every turn? Had he killed in a fit of jealous rage, because he suspected Mrs. Inspector Treadles, Charlotte Holmes’s friend and collaborator, has been found locked in a room with two dead men, both of whom worked with his wife at the great manufacturing enterprise she has recently inherited. Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, investigates a puzzling new murder case that implicates Scotland Yard inspector Robert Treadles in the USA Today bestselling series set in Victorian England.
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