A Christmas Most Shocking

In December 1906, Harry Reese follows his roving wife to Washington for a reunion with the formidable Countess von Schnurrenberger und Kesselheim. There he finds himself entangled in a mystery involving an erotic novel, a meat cleaver, several coded communiqués, a potent female aphrodisiac, a certain bit of anatomy belonging to a certain senator's wife, and, most tellingly, a German count who has mansplained himself into an early grave.... This novel is told in two parts. In the first, Harr...