![]() ![]() You need not have read any of the prior thirteen installments in the Lenox series to understand that such a peremptory request - delivered at an unscheduled stop on the train, arranged by Schermerhorn - would irritate any English gentleman of breeding. A murder has taken place, and Schermerhorn requires his help Lenox may name his price. New York captures his fancy, but it’s on a train to Boston that an importunate, extremely wealthy man named Schermerhorn, of old Knickerbocker lineage, has sent an equally importunate bodyguard to request Charles’s presence in Newport, Rhode Island. With his family’s blessing, Charles sets sail. However, he’s always dreamed of travel, and Disraeli is nothing if not persuasive. But Charles would rather refuse, for his wife has just given birth to their second daughter, and his work has taken him away from home too often. For political reasons, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli asks the most famous detective in Britain, Charles Lenox, to leave the country for a few weeks. Review: An Extravagant Death, by Charles Finch ![]()
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