Written by a Byron Society member, first in a proposed trilogy. On the actual book, the subtitle reads: "A Claire Clairmont Historical Mystery" (there's that other Byron mystery series--Riot Most Uncouth--maybe that's why). Finds its inspiration where Henry James found his for The Aspern Papers--the visit by William Michael Rossetti to the elderly Claire in Florence. Overstates B's "love"(!) for Claire (he never even liked her much) and even claims a poem most likely written to John Edleston was for her (B never immortalized Claire in poetry), so we're very much in the land of fiction. At least, as a novel, it doesn't pretend otherwise (so I should let off the pedantry pedal). The mystery begins with a mysterious note: "Your daughter lives." Definitely a Part 1--nothing is resolved. ( )