![]() ![]() Before long, people start disappearing and threats appear, pushing Harriet and Robert into harrowing situations. Meanwhile, both Harriet and Robert dig into Oswald’s past to look for a real motive. ![]() Who would have brutally stabbed the old man and his servant to death? Robert is immediately on the case, armed with the new techniques of crime scene photography and fingerprinting. Even though there are the requisite moments of casual sexism and colonial chauvinism, Robert and Harriet have a very enlightened outlook for 1910.Īt the outset of the novel, Sir Oswald’s worst sin seems to be boring others by talking about his one expedition to a mountain in northern Burma (now Myanmar) that was sitting on top of ton of rubies and sapphires. Unlike a lot of mysteries in which ordinary people blunder their way into a criminal investigation, Harriet has a partner, Detective Robert Curran, who seems willing to listen to her and never tries to talk her into not doing things. Stuart’s transporting mystery debut, Singapore Sapphire. Harriet Gordon, who is in Singapore to start her life over, has just started a job helping an old man type up his memoirs when she finds him dead, messily murdered in his haunted bungalow at the beginning of A.M. ![]()
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