Dandy Detects

In the fall of 1879, San Francisco swelters under a heat wave while Barbara Hewitt, a reserved school-teacher, uncovers a mystery with the help of her son’s dog, Dandy. This short story is set in the Victorian gas-lit world of Annie Fuller and her O’Farrell Street boarding house, which Locke wrote about in her historical mystery, Maids of Misfortune. For those of you already familiar with that world, welcome back. For the rest of you–welcome.