Riot Most Uncouth: A Lord Byron Mystery
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1807, Cambridge, England.
A young woman is murdered in a boarding house, and nobody knows what to do about it. The volunteer watchman who patrols the streets of this placid college town has no idea how to investigate a serious crime and the private bounty hunters the girl's family has hired to catch the killer employ methods that are questionable, at best.
What Cambridge needs is a hero, and, in a situation such as this, it's very easy for a gentleman with a romantic disposition to mistake himself for one.
19 year-old Lord Byron, the outlaw poet, is a student at Trinity College, though he can only be described as a "student" in the loosest sense of the word: He rarely attends class and, instead, spends his time day-drinking, making love to faculty wives, and feeding fine cuisine and expensive wine to the bear he keeps as a pet.
Catching a killer seems like a fine diversion, however, and Byron decides that solving the crime must take precedence over other, less-urgent matters such as his failing grades and mounting debts.
Written by the Edgar Award-nominated author of Don't Ever Get Old, which Publishers Weekly called "wickedly funny," and inspired by Byron's moody, sexy and often hilarious poems and letters, this dark, twisty mystery will keep you guessing until its violent conclusion.
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Daniel Friedman. (2015). Riot Most Uncouth: A Lord Byron Mystery. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
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1807, Cambridge, England.
A young woman is murdered in a boarding house, and nobody knows what to do about it. The volunteer watchman who patrols the streets of this placid college town has no idea how to investigate a serious crime and the private bounty hunters the girl's family has hired to catch the killer employ methods that are questionable, at best.
What Cambridge needs is a hero, and, in a situation such as this, it's very easy for a gentleman with a romantic disposition to mistake himself for one.
19 year-old Lord Byron, the outlaw poet, is a student at Trinity College, though he can only be described as a "student" in the loosest sense of the word: He rarely attends class and, instead, spends his time day-drinking, making love to faculty wives, and feeding fine cuisine and expensive wine to the bear he keeps as a pet.
Catching a killer seems like a fine diversion, however, and Byron decides that solving the crime must take precedence over other, less-urgent matters such as his failing grades and mounting debts.
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Starred review from October 5, 2015
Thriller Award–finalist Friedman (Don’t Ever Look Back) succeeds in making his unique blend of humor, crime, and an unusual protagonist work in the first of a new series starring the famous Romantic poet. In 1807, Byron is a student at Cambridge, but his attitude toward his studies couldn’t be more cavalier. Instead of spending any time learning, the irreverent Byron, who regards himself as the world’s greatest poet, indulges his appetite for alcohol and women, while keeping a pet bear he’s named the Professor in his rooms. When Miss Felicity Whippleby is slaughtered near Trinity College, her blood drained from her body, Byron decides that his gifts extend to detection. His efforts soon conflict with those of two professional sleuths, each apparently hired by the victim’s father. The killer strikes again, and the nature of the crimes reminds the poet of the legends of vampires his father used to recount. Besides adroitly placing the major plot twists, Friedman manages to make one of the most obnoxious leads in recent memory oddly endearing and even sympathetic. Agent: Victoria Skurnick, Levine Greenberg Literary Agency.
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The creator of Buck Schatz (Don't Ever Look Back, 2014, etc.) takes a giant leap back in time to present a murder solved by George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron. Young Byron, buoyed by the debut of Hours of Idleness (and quite impervious to its largely negative reviews), lives life as befits a noble young gentleman at Trinity College, Cambridge. He shares his spacious quarters in Nevile's Court with his valet, Joe Murray, and The Professor, a partly tame bear. Avoiding classes likely to stifle his genius, he spends his time drinking and seducing young women. But when the charms of consorts like Violet Tower pall, he turns his talents to crime investigation. After all, shouldn't the world's greatest poet also be the world's greatest detective? The murder of Felicity Whippleby, a young woman living in Cambridge in hopes of gaining an education (and perhaps also a husband) through sheer propinquity, provides fertile ground for his talents, and being barred from the murder scene by Constable Angus Buford merely whets his appetite. Soon the young lord is joined by two professional sleuths, whip-smart Sir Archibald Knifing and bumbling Fielding Dingle, presumably dispatched by Felicity's father, Lord Whippleby. But why send two detectives? And what do they have to detect, since Byron is convinced from the outset that Felicity was killed by her fiance, Leif Sedgewyck? It takes several crates of wine, a pinch of laudanum, and an avalanche of additional corpses to test whether Byron's theory is correct. Whether the young rake is charming despite or because of his nonstop sarcasm, egoism, and debauchery will depend on the reader's tastes. But given Byron's short life span, Friedman will need to check back with his hero every few months in order to stretch his series to more than a few volumes.COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know" is how anyone would describe George Gordon Byron at Trinity College in Cambridge in 1807. Son of "Mad Jack" Byron and a Scottish heiress, Lord Byron writes poetry, keeps a bear in his rooms, and refuses to attend lectures. When he learns a young woman has been brutally murdered near his chambers, he decides any poet would be remiss in not investigating this manifestation of the darker side of men's psyches. VERDICT This intricately plotted and well-researched historical series debut by Macavity Award winner Friedman (Don't Ever Get Old) blends sprightly dialog and compelling, well-drawn characters for a pleasurable read that is sure to enthrall English lit majors as well as readers who enjoy the Regency mysteries of Kate Ross and Rosemary Stevens. [For another famous English crime-solving author, see Stephanie Barron's Jane and the Waterloo Map, reviewed on p. 80.--Ed.]
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In 1807, Lord Byron is attending Trinity College in Cambridge, flouting every rule and shocking society with his profligate behavior. Upon learning that an acquaintance, Felicity Whippleby, has been brutally murdered, Byron determines that he must use his romantic poet's eye for details and subtext and apply his skills to find the murderer. He takes his pet bear, the Professor, to the scene of the crime; angers the constable; and tangles with Felicity's fiance in an attempt to have him arrested. Then the investigator Felicity's father sent from London arrives, a well-mannered retired military man. Despite being in a state of near constant drunkenness, Byron realizes that it is really up to him to find the truth or be arrested himself. Even though the crime is grisly and Byron's debauchery distinctly wanton, Friedman laces the narrative with comic moments, wry observations on noble privilege, and excellent plot turns.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)
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