Book description
Returning from a continental honeymoon with his lifelong friend and new
wife, Lady Jane Grey, Charles Lenox is asked by a colleague in
Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death
with a brick. His investigation uncovers both unsettling facts about the
family he served and a strange, second identity that the footman himself
cultivated.
Going into the boxing clubs and public houses, the Mayfair mansions and
servants' quarters of Victorian London, Lenox gradually realizes that an
old friend may be implicated in the footman's death. Soon a suspect is
arrested, but Lenox has his doubts. Desperately trying to balance the
opening of Parliament and what he feels sure is a dark secret, he soon
discovers that the killer is someone shockingly innocuous - who may be
prepared to spill blood again, even a detective's... Charles Finch
is a graduate of Yale and Oxford. He is the author of the Charles Lenox
mysteries, including The Fleet Street Murders
, The September Society
and A Stranger in Mayfair
. His first novel, A Beautiful Blue Death
, was nominated for an Agatha Award and was named one of Library
Journal's Best Books of 2007, one of only five mystery novels on the
list.
