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    Indigo Christmas: Hilda Johansson Mysteries, No. 6

    By Jeanne Dams

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    Once housemaid to the wealthy Studebaker family in South Bend, Indiana, Hilda Johansson is now married and living a well-to-do life with her new husband. But her Swedish family doesn't get along with his Irish relations. She's having trouble finding friends, since she no longer fits into her old world and isn't accepted in the new one. Just before Christmas, when the husband of her sole remaining friend is accused of theft, arson, and murder, Hilda has to find new ways of investigating a crime that seems to make no sense. In the hard economic times of 1904 with bank failures weekly, Hilda tries to aid the unemployed youth of South Bend by helping to form a Boys' Club modeled after Hull House in Chicago. And she also enlists some of them as "Baker Street Irregulars" in her mystery investigation, giving the reader a vivid sense of the city and street life of the times.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPerseverance Press
    Release dateMar 4, 2015
    ISBN9781564747105
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      Once a house maid but now a well-to-do married lady in every sense of the word, Hilda has to work at leaving her old ways behind and obeying the rules of the upper echelon, set by the wealthy. Being proper has its drawbacks: one is that she can’t use a servant’s entrance to talk to her old friends, but neither can she ask to see them at the front door. Not quite accepted in her status as a woman of means, some of wealthier ladies with old money have little respect for Hilda being nouveau riche and until recently, a maid. But when Hilda’s best friend’s husband is accused of murder, Hilda’s problems become trivial and she delves in to the investigation to prove his innocence. Author Jeanne M. Dams does an excellent job of setting the scene in the early twentieth century, with both the wealthy and working classes and their interaction. By now, these characters seem like old friends, if you been reading through the series, and the storyline in this installment does not disappoint.