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More about the book:
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.
About the author:
Charles Finch is the USA Today bestselling author
of the Charles Lenox mysteries, including The Last Passenger
(February 2020). His first contemporary
novel, The Last Enchantments, is also available from St. Martin's
Press. Finch recently received the 2017 Nona Balakian Citation Award, for
excellence in reviewing, from the National Book Critics Circle. His essays and
criticism have appeared in the New York Times, Slate,
Washington Post, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles.
ANNA QUINDLEN is a novelist and journalist whose work
has appeared on fiction, nonfiction, and self-help bestseller lists. She is the
author of nine novels: Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue,
Blessings, Rise and Shine, Every Last One, Still Life with Bread Crumbs,
Miller’s Valley, and Alternate Side. Her memoir Lots of Candles,
Plenty of Cake, published in 2012, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Her book A Short Guide to a Happy Life has sold more than a million
copies. Her most recent book is Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting.
While a columnist at The New York Times she won the Pulitzer Prize and
published two collections, Living Out Loud and Thinking Out Loud.
Her Newsweek columns were collected in Loud and Clear.