Charles Lenox #10
Minotaur Books
November 2016
On Sale: November 1, 2016
304 pages ISBN: 1250070422 EAN: 9781250070425 Kindle: B01E3PS7XY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called βa sterling addition to this well-polished series.β
Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from an old Harrow schoolmate, Gerald Leigh, but when he looks into the matter he finds that his friend has suddenly disappeared. As boys they had shared a secret: a bequest from a mysterious benefactor had smoothed Leighβs way into the world after the death of his father. Lenox, already with a passionate interest in detective work, made discovering the benefactor's identity his first case β but was never able to solve it.
Now, years later, Leigh has been the recipient of a second, even more generous bequest. Is it from the same anonymous sponsor? Or is the money poisoned by ulterior motives? Leighβs disappearance suggests the latter, and as Lenox tries, desperately, to save his friendβs life, heβs forced into confrontations with both the most dangerous of east end gangs and the far more genteel denizens of the illustrious Royal Society. When someone close to the bequest dies, Lenox must finally delve deep into the past to uncover at last the identity of the person who is either his friendβs savior β or his lethal enemy.
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