nbsp; A young woman in Victorian finery is found strangled in Mingo House, a morbid brownstone and museum, a nineteenth-century time capsule in Boston's Back Bay.nbsp;Dubbed the "Victorian Girl" by the media everywhere, she becomes the eye of a hurricane of publicity and speculation--and a darkness reaching back to the Mingoes' roots in England and to the builders of the mansion, a Civil War arms dealer and his séance-holding wife. nbsp; Boston comic Mark Winslow and the other trustees of Mingo House are divided as to whether the place is sustainable as a museum.nbsp;Trustee chairman Rudy Schmitz, the brash entrepreneur, seems convinced that the porous roof and escalating rain damage will doom the place.nbsp;Nadia Gulbenkian, the last of the old guard trustees, is accusing Rudy of engineering the museum's demise.nbsp;Software executive Jon Kim and a dubious collector of saints' bones and art are pursuing their own clandestine agendas. nbsp; Mingo House itself seems cursed, for its origins in bullets and cannonballs and the family's reputation as regicides in the execution of King Charles I.nbsp; A number of people believe its walls conceal treasure, a stolen royal monstrance, and are willing to do anything to retrieve it. nbsp; In this sequel to The Fisher Boy, pierced college students clash with flawed Brahmin bluebloods, and the Gothic with the high-tech.nbsp;As the deaths and threats multiply, one question resounds: which will survive this summer of rain, of deluge--Mingo House or its terrified staff? nbsp;