{"id":3377,"date":"2024-01-11T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2024-01-25T16:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:59:18","slug":"miss-austen-investigates-the-hapless-milliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3377","title":{"rendered":"Miss Austen Investigates: The Hapless Milliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jane Austen\u2019s throngs of fans will adore this series starter<\/strong> that introduces the writer as a lively amateur sleuth; a treasured member of a large, loving family; and as a woman of her time\u2014feisty but too often kept from her potential. The marriage market among Jane\u2019s circle looms large, of course, with Jane hoping for a proposal any day from a young Irishman while those around her assess one another in terms of their potential as financial insurance. When an alliance is about to be announced by a local family, their fa\u00e7ade of gentility is threatened when a young woman is found murdered in their home. Jane recognizes her as a milliner she\u2019s bought from lately. The local magistrate seems content to blame \u201cgypsies\u201d for the crime, an accusation Jane disputes as no traveling people have been seen in the area lately, but she\u2019s soon sorry when another is accused: her mentally disabled brother, George. It\u2019s now up to our literary hero to find the real killer and bring George home. The large cast of characters here keeps things lively; there\u2019s often humor too, both in Jane\u2019s wry comments throughout and in her witty letters to her sister about the case\u2019s progression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Austen\u2019s throngs of fans will adore this series starter that introduces the writer as a lively amateur sleuth; a treasured member of a large, loving family; and as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[180,55,56],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-debut","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Austen-400x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Austen.png","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\/3377","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=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}