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In this enthralling mystery, detective Charles Lenox tries to resist the lure of a case and focus on his new career in Parliament.
Returning from a continental honeymoon with his new wife, Lady Jane, Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His investigation uncovers some unsettling facts about the family he served and a strange, second identity that the footman himself cultivated.
Going into the boxing clubs and public houses, the Mayfair mansions and servants' quarters of Victorian London, Lenox gradually realizes that an old friend may be implicated in the footman's death. Soon a suspect is arrested, but Lenox has his doubts. Desperately trying to balance the opening of Parliament and what he feels sure is a dark secret surrounding the murder, he soon discovers that the killer is someone seemingly beyond suspicion, and may be prepared to spill blood again―even a detective's.
- Sales Rank: #83280 in Books
- Published on: 2011-07-19
- Released on: 2011-07-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.15" h x .92" w x 5.47" l, .67 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Set in 1860s London, Finch's middling fourth mystery featuring gentleman detective Charles Lenox (after 2009's The Fleet Street Murders) finds Lenox newly married to his longtime friend, Lady Jane Grey, and newly elected to Parliament. When Ludovic Starling, a slight acquaintance, asks Lenox to look into the bludgeoning murder of his footman, Frederick Clarke, Lenox, who wonders why Starling hasn't called in Scotland Yard, at first declines. In the end, despite the demands of his new vocation, Lenox agrees to help. The investigator, who's troubled to learn that Starling has been less than forthright with him, can't accept the police theory that a rival servant killed Clarke. Finch equips Lenox with his own Bunter in the person of a former butler turned political secretary, but the pair come across as weak, warmed-over versions of the golden age Dorothy Sayers originals. Portentous chapter endings undermine the otherwise solid prose. (Nov.) (c)
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From Booklist
Charles Lenox, the gentleman detective, is now a member of Parliament. He just wants to focus on his new duties, including the preparation of his maiden speech. He is also settling into married life with Lady Jane Grey. Matters become more complicated when an old friend and fellow MP, Ludovic Starling, asks him to launch a discreet investigation into the death of one of his servants. With his assistants, John Dallington and Thomas McConnell, helping out, Lenox tries his best to balance his new political duties with the investigation. As he prowls through the pubs, boxing clubs, and servants’ quarters of Victorian London, he discovers some very dark secrets and finds himself in danger from a killer who is willing to strike again to keep him quiet. Finch (The Fleet Street Murders, 2009) captures the atmosphere of Victorian London and creates a solid British mystery that will appeal to both procedural and cozy readers. --Barbara Bibel
Review
“An absolute delight . . . Finch vividly brings 1860s London to life.” ―USA Today
“Readers of Anne Perry should be snatching up Finch's books and clamoring for more.” ―Library Journal (starred review)
“Perfect for fans of Lord Peter Wimsey.” ―The Wichita Eagle
“A beguiling Victorian mystery.” ―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review on The Fleet Street Murders
“The best sort of historical mystery--clever, charming, full of period detail, and a delight to read.” ―David Liss, author of The Devil's Company, on A Beautiful Blue Death
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20 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
All the makings of a modern mystery are wrapped up in a Victorian theme.
By Bookreporter
Nero and Agatha Award nominee Charles Finch's fourth installment in the Charles Lenox series, following THE FLEET STREET MURDERS, is set in London's tony Mayfair section near Hyde Park, as the American Civil War draws to a close. Amateur sleuth Lenox returns from a summer-long continental honeymoon with his bride, Lady Jane Grey. As a wedding gift, Lenox buys his wife a painting, "the blurry one [by a] chap named Monet. Rhymes with bonnet, I think. I never heard of him myself."
The tour of the Continent draws to a close too soon for the newlyweds, as Lenox has been elected as a Member of Parliament, where his brother Edmund also serves. Their parliamentary colleague, Ludovic Starling, asks Lenox to look into the apparent murder of his teenaged footman, Frederick Clarke, though venerable Scotland Yard has taken charge. "Mayfair seemed somehow more civilized. It certainly wasn't a quarter of London that Lenox associated with murder." But there's a seedy side to Mayfair, where Clarke and Starling hid secret lives.
As Lenox's investigation with his apprentice, John Dallington, immediately identifies the murder weapon as a pavement brick, Starling insists: "Shall we just let the Yard handle it?" He hints that he is to receive a title from Queen Victoria, "a roundish, placid, unbeautiful woman." Disturbing issues Lenox discovers about the Starling family that Clarke served cultivate curiosity: "Starling's behavior was odd. Why ask Lenox onto the case and then try to kick him off? The title?"
"The butler did it!" Long-time servant Jack Collingwood lays claim to the homicide, lying to protect one of the Starlings' "quintessentially English" household. But which one? Starling himself? One of his sons? Or perhaps one of the many servants? The investigation is sped along by old Uncle Tiberius, who discloses that Starling's son Paul has not left for Africa, as suggested by Lady Elizabeth Starling, "that devil woman."
"True, visceral terror gripped at Lenox's heart," as he confronts the presumed murderer. Grim secrets reside at the Starling mansion and hide from Lenox, but "[t]he truth wants to come out." When it does, those Lenox least suspect had been in his midst all the while. The culprit is "a character that was dreadful and dark, capable of evil things."
All the makings of a modern mystery are wrapped up in a Victorian theme. This is really two novels: one of intrigue, the other of a richly written detail of life in London as it was 15 decades ago. So grab a spot of tea and enjoy both.
--- Reviewed by L. Dean Murphy ([...])
18 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
Just O.K.
By NaturalWoman
****SPOILER****I hate to break up the Charles Lenox party, but A Stranger in Mayfair did not hold my attention as much as the previous books did. My interest headed south with The Fleet Street Murders. I wasn't ready for Charles to get married and I wasn't convinced that Lady Jane, a woman of nobility, would even have him. His drinking doctor friend, Thomas, and his wife, Toto, are having a baby and that's about the only interesting thing about those two. Charles spent so much time visiting them when he should have been out sleuthing. Graham, the lovely man servant/butler belongs in the Lenox townhouse, lighting fires, delivering telegrams, serving drinks and making all things right in the world of Charles Lenox. He can never be happy in Parliament. Lady Jane's butler is a total dud and the book tells us nothing about how he relates to her household. Maybe it's just me, or maybe this book was rushed to press? I will buy the next one and hope it gets back on track. A little romance is O.K., but I'm reading for the mystery and the history.
The elegant way that Charles Finch writes had me from the first book, A Beautiful Blue Death, which, along with The September Society, were both very, very good. Finch's style is totally unique and can't be compared with any other writer in this genre. This last book just needed more plot and character development. In particular, I would have liked to have known more about his brother, Sir Edmund, and about his family and the contents of the Lenox home estate and holdings.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
An intriguing mystery, full of effective twists.
By L. J. Roberts
First Sentence: "Clara, who is that gentleman?"
Charles Lenox has, at forty, entered a new phase in his life. He is newly married to Lady Jane, for years his best friend and neighbor, and he is newly elected to Parliament's House of Commons. The second of these events necessitates spending less time doing detective work--but not yet. A colleague in Parliament, Ludovic Starling, has asked Lenox to investigate the murder of one of his footman. As Lenox, and his prot�g�e Dallington, move forward in the investigation, they are met with resistance not only from Scotland Yard but from Starling, who asks them to give up the case. An attack on Lenox stiffens his resolve to find the killer.
Finch has become a favorite of mine and this book, once again, demonstrates why as there were so many levels on which I enjoyed this book.
We are introduced to Lenox and Lady Jane through a conversation held by others, via a prologue which actually works as it allows their back story to be told without it seeming forced or cumbersome. Each of the characters are fully drawn with very brief exposition that brings them to life. One thing by which I am very impressed is how, with each book in the series, the characters lives individually grow and develop. This impacts not only each character but the relationships amongst them. Relationships are something Finch does extremely well, including the awkwardness of a newly married couple and a man making a major change in his career.
Mr. Finch's knowledge of Victorian England is evident in every page and yet, again, so seamlessly incorporated into the plot that it is informative rather than intrusive. Through Lenox's work in Parliament, we learn the concerns of the period and meet historical figures in their proper settings and appropriate roles. Through the birth of a child, we observe the customs and etiquette of the time. Although Finch is American, is studied at Oxford, now lives in the UK and delightfully conveys British humor and understatement, "For an Englishman is was a strange time to be in France....first because of Napoleon's rather uncouth attempt to conquer Europe..." The dialogue has a natural flow but also reflects the speech of the time.
Neither of the above is meant to undervalue the plot. The mystery is intriguing, and full of effective twists. I like that solution is no more obvious to Lenox than to us, the reader. We are presented with numerous possibilities, each dismissed, until the final resolution. Might I have figured it out? Perhaps; but the story involved me to the point where I wasn't deliberately trying.
The only reason I did not rate the book as "excellent" was the use of portents which were completely unnecessary. Otherwise, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and do highly recommend it with the proviso suggestion of starting the series at the beginning.
A STRANGER IN MAYFAIR (Hist Mys-Charles Lenox-London, England-Victorian) - VG+
Finch, Charles - 4th in series
Minotaur Books, �2010, US Hardcover - ISBN: 9780312625061
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