Malpractice: A Baltimore Historical Mystery Louise Titchener Hard Shell Word Factory ISBN: 0-7599-4029-0 Fiction, Historical Mystery Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

Twelve year old Bertram Oldhampton runs off to become a cabin boy. His grandfather, the rich brewery owner Lester Oldhampton is beside himself. Bertram the only child of the old man’s deceased son, Simon. The boy’s mother has recently passed. Moreover, Bertram is deaf. Terrified at what happen to Bertram, his grandfather meets with Oliver Redcastle, an ex-pinkerton detective.

Unfortunately, the grandfather’s fear was not all that unfounded. During the first few days of his investigation, Redcastle finds out that someone has been mutilating young boys. These incidents seem to stem from a boy named Arnold Kappert. Did the boy know too much or was he just in the wrong place at the wrong time? Arnold’s father had died just a few months earlier under extremely strange circumstances. Arnold was later found mutilated. Strangely, Arnold was the spitting image of Bertram Oldhampton.

Malpractice: A Baltimore Historical Mystery is an onion of detail. The reader starts out with the very interesting character of Bertram and then gets into the actual mystery. It seems that with every interview and with every new piece of information that the detective gleams that the story becomes deeper and multileveled.

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