Yup – the series goes on with more emphasis on the plots than the overarching elements keeping the series together.  I really rather like that. Here we have a young girl, maybe 14?, who is very slow, what in the 19th century was sometimes  even medically called an  “imbecile.” Sarah finds out the girl is pregnant and the question arises, how in the world did she get that way? She doesn’t go to school, doesn’t go out except with her mother, her father adores her, and she remembers nothing about any male hurting her in any way.  Sarah and ______ both investigate.  

Murder on Lenox Hill 
by Victoria Thompson
2005 
Read by Callie Beaulieu 7h 35m
Rating – A / historical crime 
(# 7 in Gaslight #7) 

And the history in these books is fascinating but it develops,  accrues slowly from Teddy Roosevelt in New York and the developments in medicine, to Freud’s new ideas, and the days of Gilded Age alongside horrendous poverty and 

 A couple of problems this time – the narrative got draggy once in the middle and then again in winding up the ending.  I suppose the ending was okay because I’ve came to love the characters.  that was only one time and for a few pages.  The other thing is the narrator isn’t able to differentiate between voices – not even male and female voices. 

And it’s odd for me to read along in a fast-paced crime novel, a real who-done-it, without being able to think – fingerprints, DNA, even telephone – none of them was even an option. This time the solution had to come from interviews, available physical clues, and the little grey cells.