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An Extravagant Death
- A Charles Lenox Mystery
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"Peppered with fascinating local history, this is a riveting listen for mystery and history lovers alike." (AudioFile Magazine)
In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's best-selling 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 a suicide? 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
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- Jessica
- 2022-08-31
Always brilliant
What I most like about the Charles Finch mysteries is that the author treats the mystery as only part of the main character's life. Therefore, the end of the mystery is not the end of the book. I love this character. He's brilliant. Well done!
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- Barbara Choo
- 2021-04-02
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This was the fourth Charles Lenox book I read but found it rather boring. I had to struggle to finish it which I managed to do only because it was short and the narrator did a good job.
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