A review by eserafina42
Street of the Five Moons by Elizabeth Peters

4.0

11/20 - Perfect pandemic escapist reading. I adore Caesar, the mistreated dog on whom Vicky takes pity and whose grateful adoration ends up getting her in hot water more than once, and whom she ends up adopting at the end. And Sir John Smythe in his first appearance (it's hard to count The Camelot Caper, in which he barely seems to be the same person as he is in this series). The spark - and the snark - between those two is something to behold.

Spoiler

I've probably noticed before, but a big plot hole that stuck out for me this time is the fact that Luigi is such an amazing forger that his work is practically undetectable but he seems to only be in his early 20s at the most - Vicky actually refers to him as a teenager at one point, but I assume she's taking liberties there, comparing him to a spoiled American teenager. Hard to believe that he would have acquired that kind of skill at such a young age, and each piece surely would have taken months, at least, to create, yet they have apparently done several.