I read the first book in this series and liked it well enough to pick this one up. It's a very conventional Victorian-era mystery, which is to say, very upper-class and very white. The setting is the Oxford of that era, which is agreeable enough. The mystery itself is a little convoluted and unlikely for my taste. The protagonist is engaging and likely to move through interesting parts of society in London in future books. I'll pick up the next one.