A Season for Death

Sergeant Bragg & Constable Morton #6

by Ray Harrison

In a mystery set against the background of Victorian England, Sergeant Bragg and Constable Morton investigate a vicious blackmailer--and possible killer--stalking Britain's aristocracy, including the Prince of Wales

245 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Raymond Vincent Harrison was born in the United Kingdom in 1928.

At one time he spent seven years working for the Inland Revenue Department of the British Government.

He began his Sergeant Bragg and Constable Morton series with 'French Ordinary Murder' (aka 'Why Kill Arthur Potter?) in 1983 and up to 1998 he had written 16 in the series.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another easily readable entry in the series of Bragg and Morton novels. This one is set in 1893 London and involves some murders of victims of blackmail, starting with the dean of St Paul’s. Parallel details of Morton’s family and their upper-class connections during the London season prove a bit tedious at times and the culprit is a bit too much from left-field, but the details of, for example, early cameras and the beginnings of serious forensics are interesting. The Prince of Wales features in a far from positive light as do a few of the famous.
These are often more interesting for the social history and extraneous detail than the often rather dogged investigations but they are literate and quite involving reads.

[Cindie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The characters have become more developed and more interesting. I do not understand the desire to pretend that a murderer allowed to “escape” to another country is a form of justice.