All three Novels are of the genre "Sensation Novel" which is a Victorian ancestor to the detective novel.
The secondary villain is sinister and chillin.
The chief villain is selfish and merciless, but without malevolence.
The plot is melodramatic, but the characters are complex and sophisticated.
Wylder\'s Hand has a fiendishly convoluted plot, as should all crime fiction in general.
Crime is at the heart of the novels, but there is no detective hero, and the crime goes alongside the melodrama.
All three Novels are of the genre "Sensation Novel" which is a Victorian ancestor to the detective novel