An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery

✍ Scribed by Finch, Charles B.;Lenox, Charles (Fictitious character)

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 170 KB
• Series: Charles Lenox Mysteries 14
• Edition: First Edition: 2021
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York (N.Y.), Newport (R.I
• ISBN: 1250767148

✦ 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.
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London, 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.

But 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.

Witty, 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.

✦ Subjects

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Fiction