A beautiful blue death

by

408 pages

English language

Published Nov. 12, 2014 by Magna.

ISBN:
978-0-7505-3883-1
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OCLC Number:
869778367

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3 stars (1 review)

On any given day in London, all Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, wants to do is relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist another chance to unravel a mystery, even if it means trudging through the snow to her townhouse next door. One of Jane's former servants, Prudence Smith, is dead - an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murder, by a rare and deadly poison.

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reviewed A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch

A bit too twee for me

3 stars

The first book in a long running twee British detective series featuring Charles Lenox, a Victorian gentleman and dabbler in solving mysteries. It's obviously well research and written with just enough humor to get by. But it is a very twee book, from the top class of British society and he sends off his butler to find things out from the "lower class", which just feels icky and deus ex machina. It was okay, but I'm probably not going to continue with it. I need more grit in my private detectives. The narration was solid and he hit all the accents, even the Scottish one.

Subjects

  • Private investigators
  • Women household employees
  • Crimes against
  • Fiction

Places

  • England
  • London
  • London (England)