A Burial at Sea

✍ Scribed by Charles Finch

• Book ID: 100098191
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press;Minotaur Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 149 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1429980702

✦ Synopsis

"Agatha Christie meets Patrick O'Brian in Finch's accomplished fifth whodunit set in Victorian England (after 2010's A Stranger in Mayfair), the best in the series to date."

-- Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly 9/12/2011

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_Charles Lenox, Member of Parliament, sets sail on a clandestine mission for the government. When an officer is savagely murdered, however, Lenox is drawn toward his old profession, determined to capture another killer.

_ 1873 is a perilous time in the relationship between France and England. When a string of English spies is found dead on French soil, the threat of all-out war prompts government officials to ask Charles Lenox to visit the newly-dug Suez Canal on a secret mission.

Once he is on board the Lucy , however, Lenox finds himself using not his new skills of diplomacy but his old ones: the ship's second lieutenant is found dead on the voyage's first night, his body cruelly...