An Extravagant Death
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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…
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Prime Minister Disraeli chooses a gentlemen detective for a diplomatic mission at the Queen’s bidding. Anxious for a first U.S. visit Charles Lenox, Lynch’s protagonist with panache, accepts with aplomb.
Lenox finds himself in a social drama when the season’s loveliest debutante seems to have thrust herself over a cliff at a fabulous Newport mansion. Is it suicide? Or murder? His wit and charm engage both old Knickerbocker society and the new robber baron mystique, but his investigative prowess takes them by storm.
Finch characters always surprise and excel. Intelligent. Never fawning. Never condescending. Always with innate strength.
An American…
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