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Mysteries: Tim Mason’s ‘The Nightingale Affair’

Plus reviews of Bridget Walsh’s ‘The Tumbling Girl’ and Will Thomas’s ‘Heart of the Nile.’

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Tim Mason’s “The Nightingale Affair” revisits the era of his 2019 book “The Darwin Affair,” starring real-life Scotland Yard detective Charles Field (1805-74). Field is said to have been the model for Charles Dickens’s fictional Inspector Bucket. Dickens is one of several eminent Victorians (Benjamin Disraeli, Wilkie Collins, John Stuart Mill) who inhabit the pages of Mr. Mason’s latest effort.

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