The Devil's Feast, Carter - B

                                               This, the third in the series, is set, as was the second,  in London in the 1840's. The first and best of the three was set in the Raj.  The take-away in this novel is the background of and establishment of the Reform Club and its trendsetting kitchen. It was the first significant non-Tory club and a political compromise between the Radicals and the Whigs, who eventually went on to be the Liberals. Most of the time in the novel  is spent on the workings of the kitchen and its real life creator and legendary chef, Alexis Soyer, of Paris.  In the second book, I compared Avery and Blake to Watson and Holmes. Blake as Holmes continues to peek through. As I've said before, when a historian takes up the pen of a novelist, the results are usually enlightening.