Curate Matthew West, his fiancée Adelaide Carlyle, and her father Dr. James Carlyle attend a performance of the circus. What looks like an accident happens – a trapeze artist falls to his death. Upon close examination, however, Dr. Carlyle suspects and then determines that this was no accident. But no one can interest Scotland Yard in investigating; too many other crimes are demanding attention.
Matthew is working is his new parish posting of St. Dunstan’s. Three children have gone missing; the police know children in the poorer neighborhoods go missing all the time. There are also rumors of disembodied children floating outside their parents’ and others’ windows.
Two months later, when Matthew and Adelaide return from their honeymoon, three missing children are now 12 missing children. Their investigations lead them to two discoveries – that the missing children may be linked to the circus murder, and there is now the specter of highly contagious disease to deal with.
David Field
Confronting the Invisible by David Field is the third of four books in the Carlyle & West Victorian Mystery Series. The first is Interviewing the Dead, the second is Death Comes But Twice, and the fourth is Death Among the Nightingales. Field also written six historical novels set in Tudor England and eight novels in the Esther and Jack Enright Mystery Series. A native of Nottingham, England, he practiced and taught criminal law for his professional career. He now lives in Australia.
The investigation story is farmed by the time period – early Edwardian London – and by the social issues involving women (Adelaide is a champion for women’s rights). Confronting the Invisible is another fine entry to the Carlyle & West mystery series.
Related:
Interviewing the Dead by David Field.
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