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Chartered as a private investigator, Charles Lenox enjoys the calm of his London study with tea and a roaring fire. When his friend Lady Jane turns to him after the apparent suicide of former servant Prudence Smith, Lenox refuses the quiet and sets out across the city’s snow‑ed streets. He suspects that the death, masked as suicide, was actually a murder committed with a rare and deadly poison. The investigation brings social customs, the dynamics of household servants, and the era’s London setting into focus as Lenox works to uncover the truth.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Charles Finch
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