I have been reading The Color of Death by Bruce Alexander. It is very well written and has a lot of detail. It takes place in London in the mid 1800s. Interestingly, the black population of that city are a main feature. Slavery was outlawed in England long before it was in the United States and this is one of the main themes of the book. The protagonist is a blind magistrate. There are lots of details of the problems he has and the ways he circumvents them, of course it helps that he is well to do and lives in a house with several servants. However, he also has a ward he has taken in off the street and the narrator also lives there and is studying law under him. So far it is a delightful story (if a murder mystery can be considered delightful) and I am really enjoying it.