The petticoat men

An enjoyable, well-researched novel. I found the first-person narrative parts a bit difficult to get into at first, but once I got into it, I thought that it was quite a clever way of telling the story. The characters were interesting. I thought that it is the kind of book you would read and want to know more about both the case and some of the historical figures portrayed (Susan Vane-Tempest for example).