<p>This is a collection of four short stories by <em>USA Today </em>bestselling author M. Louisa Locke set in the gas-lit world of Victorian San Francisco. <em>Madam Sibyl’s First Client </em>was written specifically for this collection and it finds Annie Fuller the young widowed boardinghouse keeper just starting her career as a pretend clairvoyant. In <em>Dandy Detects</em> the Boston Terrier that lives in Annie Fuller’s boardinghouse helps uncover a crime and in <em>The Misses Moffet Mend a Marriage</em> Annie’s two elderly boarders use their dressmaking skills to avert a domestic tragedy. Finally in <em>Mr. Wong Rights a Wrong</em> a Chinese manservant introduced in <em>Maids of Misfortune</em> the first book in Locke’s historical mystery series makes another appearance and helps Annie Fuller solve a serious problem. As a bonus there is an essay <em>Historical Tidbits</em> which provides insight into the historical research that went into these stories.  </p><br /><p>This collection can be read as an introduction or a companion to the full-length novels in the cozy Victorian San Francisco Mystery series permitting some of the most beloved minor characters of that series to have some fun by taking center stage.</p>