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A Stranger in Mayfair (Charles Lenox Mysteries)
by Charles FinchCover Artist: Photo: Lisa Adams Review by Mel Jacob Minotaur Books Hardcover ISBN/ITEM#: 9780312625061 Date: 09 November 2010 List Price $24.99 Amazon US / Amazon UK / Show Article / The fourth Charles Lenox novel by Charles Finch finds Lenox, now a new Member of Parliament, asked by an acquaintance, Ludo Sparling, to solve the murder of a young footman. Torn between his love of detecting and his new duties, Lenox calls upon Lord Dallington, his sometime assistant, to solve the case to the chagrin of Ludo who desires confidentiality. From official release/information: Product 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' quarter 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.(Source: Minotaur Books)
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