Charles Lenox Mysteries: A Beautiful Blue Death : The First Charles Lenox Mystery (Series #1) (Paperback)

from richardderus

I submerged into 1865 London with surprising ease in this debut mystery. I was irked by lots of little picky detail boo-boos, but charmed by the characters of Charles Lenox and Lady Jane Grey, who *should* be called Lady Deere or the Dowager Countess of Deere, but whatever. Their interspecies fri...

from barlow304

This debut mystery by Charles Finch has a charming, if foppish detective, and an interesting setting among the upper class in 1865 Britain. I think it plays fair with the reader in terms of the puzzle, although the solution is a trifle far-fetched. The book also has a bit of light comedy in it. T...

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The first book in the Charles Lenox mystery series sets an ambition challenge for Charles Lenox, English gentleman and amateur detective. A young house maid is poisoned with the rare bella indigo - the beautiful blue - and the evidence points to a suicide, but Charles immediately suspects that th...

from Renz0808

Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch is the first mystery novel centering on Charles Lenox a second son of a member of English ruling class. He spends a lot of his free time doing some free-lance detective work mostly cases that Scotland Yard has a time solving. When his childhood best friend La...

from mmignano11

Charles Finch has written a delightful murder-mystery full of curious characters that leave you wanting another book, if only to find out what happens to our armchair explorer, Charles Lenox and the beautiful and genteel Lady Jane. The book is full of period detail, but not bogged down at all. I ...