Where is The Vanishing Man?

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I wasn’t sure which book to pick this week, but have decided on The Vanishing Man by Charles Finch. First, let’s clear up a few confusing things about the listing for this book. First… it isn’t about a vanishing man. It is about the theft of a work of art, which is the clue to a larger mystery. Unless the title is referring to the man in the painting, which really isn’t the crux of the mystery, so I’m not sure.

Secondly, Amazon lists it as a prequel to the Charles Lenox Victorian series, which is odd when it is book #12 in said series. The Woman in the Water is also referred to as the prequel to this series, and in fact says so on the cover, yet it is book #11 in the series. Perhaps Charles Finch has been writing them in reverse order and his publisher hasn’t gone back to fix the descriptions of the previously published books, I don’t know. It is confusing, but there you go.

I have read another book or two in this series. As mentioned, Charles Lenox is a Victorian sleuth, the first or one of the first private investigators of this time. He is high born and cannot be a policeman or be paid for his investigations because of the impact on his and his family’s…