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An extravagant death /

Finch, Charles

An extravagant death / - Center Point Large Print edition. - 399 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. - A Charles Lenox mystery ; [14] . - Finch, Charles (Charles B.) Charles Lenox series ; 14. .

Regular print version previously published by: St. Martin's Publishing Group.

"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."--

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Lenox, Charles (Fictitious character) --Fiction.


Private investigators--England--London--Fiction.
British--United States--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Large type books.


New York (N.Y.)--History--19th century--Fiction.
Newport (R.I.)--History--19th century--Fiction.


Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.

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