The Mystery Woman

Its place in Ladies of Lantern Street

The Mystery Woman is book 2 in the Ladies of Lantern Street series. It follows Crystal Gardens. It is followed by Otherwise Engaged. See the full Ladies of Lantern Street reading order.

The Ladies of Lantern Street run a discreet Victorian employment agency that places women -- psychic companions, mediums, ladies' companions -- with clients who need rather more than a chaperone, a premise that gives Quick's heroines a plausible reason to be moving through dangerous households and stranger mysteries than a respectable Victorian woman would otherwise encounter. Each of the three novels follows a different agency placement gone dangerous: a case that starts as a discreet job and turns into…