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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
First Sentence: It was late in the evening, and a thin winter rain beat down over London's low buildings and high steeples, collecting in sallow pools beneath the streetlights and insinuating its way inside the clothes of the miserable few whom fate had kept outside.
Amateur sleuth Charles Lenox is recently engaged to his best friend and neighbor, Lady Jane Grey, and is running for parliament in the small town of Stirrington, north of London. However, two important Fleet Street journalists are murdered on the same night at nearly the same time but one mile apart. Lenox becomes involved in the investigation but must do so remotely while he works on his election.
Finch brings Victorian England to life taking us from the residences of London society, to a small working town, to Newgate Prison making each real. The characters are diverse and real as the settings. I like that Charles and Lady Jane are not young, with Charles being not quite fifty. Graham is Charles friend and butler, their friends who suffer a miscarriage, the young son of a noble house who Lenox is trying to save from a life of dissipation by teaching him investigation and many others.
I love British historical mysteries and authors who seamlessly incorporate people, events and places into their books, such as Dickens drinking at the Fleet Street Pub, Ye Old Cheshire Cheese; a pub still in operation today. Even Finch's narration conveys the decorum of the time, "...their conversation devolved into all the endearments and stolen kisses and long laughs that belong to any new love--and that scarcely need to be repeated here."
Following Lenox through his campaign was fascinating and very much, I'm certain, still the way of campaigns today, perhaps even down to buying votes although one hopes not. Balanced against that is the unfolding of the investigation, much of which he has to conduct remotely and with the help of others.
The various story lines are very well constructed, seamlessly blended and each as interesting as the other. The story builds to a very exciting chase and an unexpected twist.
My fondest wish is for many more Charles Lenox books to come.
THE FLEET STREET MURDERS (Hist Mys-Charles Lenox-England-Victorian/1866) - VG+
Finch, Charles - 3rd in series
Minotaur Books, 2009, US Hardcover - ISBN: 9780312565510
Amateur sleuth Charles Lenox is recently engaged to his best friend and neighbor, Lady Jane Grey, and is running for parliament in the small town of Stirrington, north of London. However, two important Fleet Street journalists are murdered on the same night at nearly the same time but one mile apart. Lenox becomes involved in the investigation but must do so remotely while he works on his election.
Finch brings Victorian England to life taking us from the residences of London society, to a small working town, to Newgate Prison making each real. The characters are diverse and real as the settings. I like that Charles and Lady Jane are not young, with Charles being not quite fifty. Graham is Charles friend and butler, their friends who suffer a miscarriage, the young son of a noble house who Lenox is trying to save from a life of dissipation by teaching him investigation and many others.
I love British historical mysteries and authors who seamlessly incorporate people, events and places into their books, such as Dickens drinking at the Fleet Street Pub, Ye Old Cheshire Cheese; a pub still in operation today. Even Finch's narration conveys the decorum of the time, "...their conversation devolved into all the endearments and stolen kisses and long laughs that belong to any new love--and that scarcely need to be repeated here."
Following Lenox through his campaign was fascinating and very much, I'm certain, still the way of campaigns today, perhaps even down to buying votes although one hopes not. Balanced against that is the unfolding of the investigation, much of which he has to conduct remotely and with the help of others.
The various story lines are very well constructed, seamlessly blended and each as interesting as the other. The story builds to a very exciting chase and an unexpected twist.
My fondest wish is for many more Charles Lenox books to come.
THE FLEET STREET MURDERS (Hist Mys-Charles Lenox-England-Victorian/1866) - VG+
Finch, Charles - 3rd in series
Minotaur Books, 2009, US Hardcover - ISBN: 9780312565510
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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Sweet Treat - The Fleet Street Murders
28 Nov 2009
Format:Hardcover
Charles Finch & his Mr. Lenox have me hooked. "Beautiful Blue Death" was a delight, but "Fleet Street Murders" tops them all. My only disappointment was that the book came to an end & left me hungry for more. (I have the same reaction to chocolate, too.) Charles Finch has given detective Lenox more depth to his gentleman's nature. Lenox feels the grip of being torn by several worlds at one time with his election campaign demands, his love tensions & his desire to solve crime. Other characters such as Toto, Dallington, Dr. McConnell, Jenkins, Edmund & Lady Jane are becoming more complex as well. Even the minor characters have surprising roles to play. The prologue was so concise, that it merited numerous re-reads as the tale unfolded. In addition to plot, characters & suspense, the book also illuminates the history of the period with flavorful bits of information about architecture, government & travel. Like any good chocoholic, I am fiending for the next book. What a sweet treat, "The Fleet Street Murders", has been & I can hardly wait for the next book!!!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Another great installment in the Charles Lenox series.
30 Dec 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Another excellent story in the Charles Lenox series. This one is the third. The plot is a little more involved in this one--more lines, I think, than in the last two.
Followers of the series will remember that at the end of the second installment--The September Society--Lenox proposed marriage to Lady Jane Grey and was asked to stand for a seat in Parliament. Here, despite the pressures of campaigning in a rural area, he is trying to keep abreast of the developments in two seemingly linked murders back in London and maintain his relationship with Lady Jane.
I can highly recommend this book. I certainly hope Mr. Finch continues to favour us with the Lenox series.
Followers of the series will remember that at the end of the second installment--The September Society--Lenox proposed marriage to Lady Jane Grey and was asked to stand for a seat in Parliament. Here, despite the pressures of campaigning in a rural area, he is trying to keep abreast of the developments in two seemingly linked murders back in London and maintain his relationship with Lady Jane.
I can highly recommend this book. I certainly hope Mr. Finch continues to favour us with the Lenox series.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Smooth as Silk
13 Dec 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This latest installment of Mr Finch's wonderful hero, Carles Lenox, is a well-crafted story with rich characterization and smooth plot twists. A couple of previous story lines are tied up in this novel, some of which are rather surprising. The love interest is a bit mysterious in itself. I think that Lenox's fiancée might have some sexual "issues," but the genre that Mr Finch has adopted makes delving into that realm out-of-bounds. Still, the mystery is a satisfying page-turner, well-written and captivating.
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