The Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
I stumbled upon this series when navigating around the library website looking for something to download. This is not the first book in the series but I enjoyed it immensely and quickly picked up on the relationships between the main characters.
The time is the 1800s. The place is London. Lenox is an amateur sleuth. Lady Jane is his best friend and neighbor. Graham is his butler and sometimes assistant sleuth. Edmund is his brother, a member of Parliament. He has a friend who is a physician who is no longer practicing medicine but still helps Lenox out with the scientific aspects of his sleuthing.
In this episode, one of Jane's former maids (now working for a man named Barnard) is found dead. The police--and Barnard--are quick to say it was suicide, even though the girl had just become engaged and apparently had no reason to kill herself. Jane asks Lenox to investigate and he gets the cooperation of the rather inept policeman assigned to the case, Exeter, by promising to give Exeter all the credit if he figures out what really happened. Then someone else turns up dead at Barnard's house and Lenox begins to wonder whether the two cases are connected.
It was an interesting plot with likeable characters and just the thing for these days when we're stuck in the house looking for a little diversion. I'm hoping some of the other books in the series are available for download.
The time is the 1800s. The place is London. Lenox is an amateur sleuth. Lady Jane is his best friend and neighbor. Graham is his butler and sometimes assistant sleuth. Edmund is his brother, a member of Parliament. He has a friend who is a physician who is no longer practicing medicine but still helps Lenox out with the scientific aspects of his sleuthing.
In this episode, one of Jane's former maids (now working for a man named Barnard) is found dead. The police--and Barnard--are quick to say it was suicide, even though the girl had just become engaged and apparently had no reason to kill herself. Jane asks Lenox to investigate and he gets the cooperation of the rather inept policeman assigned to the case, Exeter, by promising to give Exeter all the credit if he figures out what really happened. Then someone else turns up dead at Barnard's house and Lenox begins to wonder whether the two cases are connected.
It was an interesting plot with likeable characters and just the thing for these days when we're stuck in the house looking for a little diversion. I'm hoping some of the other books in the series are available for download.
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