Lessons in Keeping a Dangerous Promise

3.5 stars. Dangerous Promise is set in 1923, with the trauma of the Great War still present. Jonty and Orlando take on a case that hits very close to home. A former soldier asks the Fellows to help him fulfill the deathbed promise he made to his lover, who died in battle. The dead man's previous lover has been accused of child molestation, and his reputation is in shreds. Even worse, the accused man has disappeared so our sleuths can't get his side of the story.

As usual, I'm not that interested in the mystery, but I am here for one of the more sentimental entries in the long-running series. Jonty and Orlando love, support, and gently tease each other through Jonty's still fresh grief at losing his parents to the flu epidemic, his memories of being abused in boarding school, and both men's acute realization that their happy life together could have easily gone a different way given their dangerous roles in the War.