1/16: a mystery

It's been some time since I picked up a Victorian novel with a mystery plot, but I'm now reading Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and it definitely falls in that genre.  At times it reminds me of Wilkie Collins (one of my all-time favorite authors), though with fewer eccentric characters overall (or at least so far).  I'm enjoying the way in which Braddon pulls a reader in and along, and I really like the character who's doing the detective work.  I didn't think I'd warm to him (a young lawyer who's never actually practiced law), but Braddon gradually unfolds him to her audience, and now I'm won over.