Rejoice! Harry and Emmie Reese now have a holiday tale of their own in A Christmas Most Shocking (#702) by Robert Bruce Stewart. It is indeed a shocking story on many levels - in the manner in which one of the characters meets his end, and in the goings on in the Washington home of the Countess von Schnurrenberger und Kesselheim.
Emmie Reese has been summoned to Washington to record the Countess' life story while Harry stays behind in New York to finish up an insurance case. Emmie has promised to return home in time for Christmas, but she is showing no signs of returning when Harry receives a series of mysterious anonymous letters hinting broadly at a scandalous affair in D.C. When he arrives to find himself an unwanted guest of the Countess in a crowded household, things soon go from bad to worse...
The events of this turn-of-the century December are told by two narrators: Harry Reese and by Sesbania, a precocious child staying with the Countess while her parents are in Europe. It seems that Emmie may have more than met her match in the eye to the main chance Sesbania, which is truly a terrifying thought.
This bawdy and amusing tale will keep you warm on a cold winter's night.
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