<p>A young woman dressed in Victorian finery <span>is found strangled</span> in Mingo House a morbid brownstone and museum a nineteenth-century time capsule in Boston’s Back Bay. Dubbed the “Victorian Girl” by the media everywhere she becomes the eye of a hurricane of publicity and speculation and of a darkness reaching back to the Mingo family’s roots in England—and to the builders of the mansion a Civil War arms dealer and his séance-holding wife.</p> <p>Boston comic Mark Winslow and the other trustees of Mingo House are divided as to whether the place is sustainable as a museum. Trustee chairman Rudy Schmitz the brash entrepreneur seems convinced that the porous roof and escalating rain damage will doom the place. </P><P>Nadia Gulbenkian the last of the old-guard trustees is accusing Rudy of engineering the museum’s demise. Software executive Jon Kim and a dubious collector of saints’ bones and art are pursuing their own clandestine agendas.</p> <p>Mingo House itself seems cursed for its origins in bullets and cannonballs and for the family’s reputed connection to the execution of King Charles I. A number of people believe its walls conceal treasure—a stolen royal monstrance—and are willing to do anything to retrieve it.</p> <p>In this sequel to <em>The Fisher Boy</em> pierced college students clash with flawed Brahmin blue bloods and the Gothic with the high tech. As the deaths and threats multiply one question resounds: will anyone or anything survive this summer of rain of deluge—Mingo House or its terrified staff?</p></P><P>A Blackstone Audio production.</P>