Rent An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery (Charles Lenox Mysteries, 14)

Synopsis

In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch\'s bestselling series, An Extravagant Death finds Sir Charles Lenox traveling to Gilded Age Newport and New York to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite.\r\nLondon, 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.\r\n\r\nBut when a letter arrives with an unexpected invitation, he\'s unable to resist the call of an old, 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 suicide of the season\'s most beautiful debutante, who has thrown herself from a cliff. Or was it a suicide? Her closest friend doesn\'t think so, and Lenox, sacrificing his plans, travels to the family\'s magnificent Newport mansion in the guise of an idle English gentleman. What ensues is a fiendsh game of cat and mouse.\r\n\r\nWitty, 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. A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

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