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Charles Finch
Full Series List in Order
A Charles Lenox Mystery
0.5 - The Last Passenger (Feb-2020)1 - A Beautiful Blue Death (Jul-2007)
2 - The September Society (Aug-2008)
3 - The Fleet Street Murders (Nov-2009)
4 - A Stranger in Mayfair (Nov-2010)
4.5 - An East End Murder (Nov-2011)
5 - A Burial at Sea (Nov-2011)
6 - A Death in the Small Hours (Nov-2012)
7 - An Old Betrayal (Nov-2013)
8 - The Laws of Murder (Nov-2014)
9 - Home by Nightfall (Nov-2015)
10 - The Inheritance (Nov-2016)
10.5 - Gone Before Christmas (Oct-2017)
11 - The Woman in the Water (Feb-2018)
12 - The Vanishing Man (Feb-2019)
13 - An Extravagant Death (Feb-2021)
14 - The Hidden City (Nov-2025)
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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A Beautiful Blue Death
- Jul-2007
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Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chanc...
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The September Society
- Aug-2008
- / Historical Mystery
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The sitting room looked as familiar as the back of his hand, and immediately Lenox took a liking to the young man who inhabited it. He saw several small artifacts of the missing student's life---a frayed piece of string about two feet long of the sor...
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The Fleet Street Murders
- Nov-2009
- / Historical Mystery
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"The third book in the Charles Lenox series finds the gentleman detective trying to balance a heated race for Parliament with the investigation of the mysterious simultaneous deaths of two veteran reporters."" "It's Christmas, 1866, and amateur sleut...
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A Stranger in Mayfair
- Nov-2010
- / Historical Mystery
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Returning from a continental honeymoon with his lifelong friend and new wife, Lady Jane Grey, Charles Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His investigation uncovers both...
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A Burial at Sea
- Nov-2011
- / Historical Mystery
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Charles Lenox, Member of Parliament, sets sail on a clandestine mission for the government. When an officer is savagely murdered, however, Lenox is drawn toward his old profession, determined to capture another killer. 1873 is a perilous time in ...
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An East End Murder
- Nov-2011
- / Mystery
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From the acclaimed author of the Charles Lenox series of mysteries, including the Agatha-nominated novel A Beautiful Blue Death, comes a riveting short story of death and detection on the East End. It’s the end of winter 1865 when Lenox agrees t...
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A Death in the Small Hours
- Nov-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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From the critically acclaimed author of A Beautiful Blue Death and A Burial at Sea comes an intriguing new mystery in what The New York Times calls "a beguiling series" Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted n...
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An Old Betrayal
- Nov-2013
- / Historical Mystery
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In An Old Betrayal, the seventh book of Charles Finch’s bestselling series of Victorian mysteries, a case of mistaken identity has Charles Lenox playing for his highest stakes yet: the safety of Queen Victoria herself. On a spring morning in Lon...
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The Last Enchantments
- Feb-2014
- / Literary
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The Last Enchantments is a powerfully moving and lyrically written novel. A young American embarks on a year at Oxford and has an impassioned affair that will change his life forever After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line ...
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The Laws of Murder
- Nov-2014
- / Historical Mystery
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It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new detective agency, t...
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Home by Nightfall
- Nov-2015
- / Historical Mystery
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A death in the family brings gentleman sleuth Charles Lenox back to the country house where he grew up just in time to confront an odd, unsettling crime in a nearby village. It s London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disap...
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The Inheritance
- Nov-2016
- / Historical Mystery
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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 benefac...
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Gone Before Christmas
- Oct-2017
- / Historical Mystery
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In Gone Before Christmas, this delightfully absorbing short Christmas story in the bestselling Charles Lenox mystery series, Lenox must find a soldier who ran into a cloakroom for his hat -- and never returned. Charles Lenox’s holiday preparatio...
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The Woman in the Water
- Feb-2018
- / Historical Mystery
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This chilling new mystery in the USA Today bestselling series by Charles Finch takes readers back to Charles Lenox’s very first case and the ruthless serial killer who would set him on the course to become one of London’s most brilliant detective...
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The Vanishing Man
- Feb-2019
- / Historical Mystery
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From the critically acclaimed and USA Today bestselling author Charles Finch comes THE VANISHING MAN, the second in a prequel trilogy to his Charles Lenox Victorian series, in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for...
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The Last Passenger
- Feb-2020
- / Historical Mystery
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From bestselling author Charles Finch comes the third and final in a prequel trilogy to his lauded Charles Lenox series. London, 1855. A young and eager Charles Lenox faces his toughest case yet: a murder without a single clue. Slumped in a third-...
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An Extravagant Death
- Feb-2021
- / Mystery
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In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite.London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered...
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The Hidden City
- Nov-2025
- / Historical Mystery
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Against the vividly drawn backdrop of Victorian London, amateur sleuth Charles Lenox must unlock a mystery concealed in the architecture of the city itself, in this new novel from acclaimed author Charles Finch.It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing fr...