Binding: Paperback
Description: In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle two children and an intriguing new murder case. But when Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers him the opportunity to undertake a diplomatic mission for the Queen Lenox welcomes the chance to satisfy an unfulfilled yearning: to travel to America. Arriving in New York he begins to receive introductions into both its old Knickerbocker society and its new robber baron splendor. Then a shock: the death of the season's most beautiful debutante who appears to have thrown herself from a cliff. Or was it murder? Lenox's reputation has preceded him to the States and he is summoned to a magnificent Newport mansion to investigate the mysterious death. What ensues is a fiendish game of cat and mouse. Witty complex and tender An Extravagant Death is Charles Finch's triumphant return to the main storyline of his beloved Charles Lenox series a devilish mystery a social drama and an unforgettable first trip for an Englishman coming to America.
Title: An Extravagant Death A Charles Lenox Mystery
Author(s): Finch Charles
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250767158
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/18/2022
Series: Charles Lenox Mysteries