Primeros reseñadoresMichael Cox

The characters in this absorbing collection travel in time from pre-history and the ancient Greeks to Regency bucks and Edwardian suffragettes, with tales by masters of the genre--Robert Louis Stevenson, Rafael Sabatini, and Georgette Heyer among them--alongside famous novelists such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Naomi Mitcheson, William Faulkner, and Marjorie Bowen, as well as unexpected names such as Edgar Wallace, E.M. Delafield, and M.R. James.

The Glass of Time is a page-turning period mystery about identity, the nature of secrets, and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present. In the autumn of 1876, nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great country house of Evenwood to become a lady's maid to the twenty-sixth Baroness Tansor. But Esperanza is no ordinary servent. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de l'Orme, to uncover the secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanza's own life is bound up. As Evenwood she meets Lady Tansor's two dashing sons, Perseus and Randolph, and finds herself enmeshed in a complicated web of seduction, intrigue, deceit, betrayal, and murder. Few writers are as gifted at evoking the sensibility of the nineteenth century as Michael Cox, who has made the world of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins his own.