An Extravagant Death - Charles Finch
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery, Historical Fiction, Adults
Charles Lenox Mystery Series, Book 14 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Release date: February 16, 2021 Duration: 08:17:41, 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 Lenoxs 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 seasons most beautiful debutante, who appears to have thrown herself from a cliff. Or was it a suicide? Lenoxs reputation has preceded him
