![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are remarkably vivid, the narrative is ever intellectually stimulating (as all get out), and as usual, Mr. As with previous volumes in this extremely well crafted series, there's an awful lot to like, nay. Lizzie Borden, the Girl Detective of Fall River, is at her most spirited in The Minuscule Monk, a comic mystery that paints a portrait of Fall River at the height of its splendor and its most infamous citizen at the start of her most excellent career.Ībsolutely impressive! Yet again! But then, I honestly expected nothing less from author Richard Behrens and his ongoing Lizzie Borden: Girl Detective mysteries. Or perhaps, as Lizzie suspects after attending a dinner party with non-existent food and meeting a horse that has turned into its opposite, none of it is even real. With such high stakes, everyone has a motive for murder, yet everyone seems innocent. ![]() Accompanied by an eccentric millionaire who campaigns to extend the vote to animals a Boston terrier trained to sniff out crooked politicians and a boy detective who believes the entire universe to be inside his own head, Lizzie follows a trail of taxidermy tools and Civil War bushwhackers to the Minuscule Monk, a legendary gunslinger whose mummified body will bring a punter’s pot to anyone who can deliver it to the New York gangster who has been hunting the Monk for decades. When a dead body mysteriously appears in the basement of her father’s furniture store, 15 year-old Lizzie Andrew Borden immediately takes on the case. ![]()
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