actually, thinking about it, I'd have been much more satisfied with the story if it had just been the boys detecting, since their bit hung together really well and it felt like the Sally bit was a sub-plot that kept intruding for no reason other than the author couldn't let it go.
Seriously. The main thread of the story is actually the magician, Bexwell, the seance stuff and Nellie, and Isabel the seamstress. Sally and the financial stuff is pretty peripheral to the main driving plot 'oh, btw, he killed so and so years ago! patents!' Jim and Fred : 'ooooo-kay - do you mind if we get on with tracking down this stuff that's actually got a lot of people in danger *right now*?'
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Date: 2007-12-31 03:23 pm (UTC)Seriously. The main thread of the story is actually the magician, Bexwell, the seance stuff and Nellie, and Isabel the seamstress. Sally and the financial stuff is pretty peripheral to the main driving plot 'oh, btw, he killed so and so years ago! patents!' Jim and Fred : 'ooooo-kay - do you mind if we get on with tracking down this stuff that's actually got a lot of people in danger *right now*?'