An Extravagant Death - (Charles Lenox Mysteries) by Charles Finch

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.

With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding.

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.