In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling
series, 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 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 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 season's most beautiful debutante, who appears to have
thrown herself from a cliff. Or was it murder? Lenox's reputation has
preceded him to the States, and he is summoned to a magnificent Newport
mansion to investigate the mysterious death. What ensues is a fiendish
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.
