This is a collection of four short stories by?USA Today bestselling author M. Louisa Locke set in the gas-lit world of Victorian San Francisco.?Madam Sibyl?s First Client was written specifically for this collection and it finds Annie Fuller the young widowed boardinghouse keeper just starting her career as a pretend clairvoyant. In?Dandy Detects the Boston Terrier that lives in Annie Fuller?s boardinghouse helps uncover a crime and in?The Misses Moffet Mend a Marriage Annie?s two elderly boarders use their dressmaking skills to avert a domestic tragedy. Finally in?Mr. Wong Rights a Wrong a Chinese manservant introduced in?Maids of Misfortune the first book in Locke?s historical mystery series makes another appearance and helps Annie Fuller solve a serious problem. As a bonus there is an essay?Historical Tidbits which provides insight into the historical research that went into these stories.??
This collection can be read as an introduction or a companion to the full-length novels in the cozy Victorian San Francisco Mystery series permitting some of the most beloved minor characters of that series to have some fun by taking center stage.
