{"id":3338,"date":"2023-12-14T18:13:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2024-01-04T16:40:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:40:52","slug":"the-last-note-of-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3338","title":{"rendered":"The Last Note of Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Schellman\u2019s previous two books in this exciting series, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2274\">Last Call at the Nightingale<\/a><\/em> (2022) and <em>The Last Drop of Hemlock<\/em> (2023), will find this trilogy closer a satisfying end to the roller coaster of Vivian Kelly\u2019s life as a seamstress by day, flapper at a queer-friendly speakeasy by night. Vivian now delivers dresses to her boss\u2019s wealthy clients, waiting around mansions until the clients deign to join her for a last check on their new dresses\u2019 fit. On one such visit, Vivian is invited by the gentleman of the house to sit a while and warm up, during which time he\u2019s called away. She then finds him dead, and as she\u2019s the only person around, she\u2019s on the hook for the killing. She\u2019s given a week to find the real killer, with the police seemingly aware that she probably didn\u2019t do the crime but happy to have a handy suspect to charge. The tumultuous week forms the bulk of the book, and sees our hero display her signature moxie, smarts, and the love she hides for her family and her police-officer paramour, their relationship troubled by his family ties to the commissioner who\u2019s happy to put Vivian away. <strong>Life among the haves and have nots of the Roaring Twenties is a heady setting and Vivian a character well worth getting to know\u2014you can enjoy this without having read the previous two books, but do yourself a favor and add them to your library\u2019s hold list anyway!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Schellman\u2019s previous two books in this exciting series, Last Call at the Nightingale (2022) and The Last Drop of Hemlock (2023), will find this trilogy closer a satisfying&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[54,55,56],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-historical","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Warning-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Warning-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}