#6 in the Charles Lenox mystery series set in London. Story open in 1874 with Charles superficially involved in his former private investigation practice and now the father of a 3 month old daughter and a rising member in the House of Commons. His former investigative endeavors has been taken o...
The assassination attempts that had made the news occurred in 1840, 1849, 1850, and 1872—and most notably in 1842. During that year, when she was only twenty-three years old, a man shot at her carriage; the next day, the Queen insisted on riding the same route, in hopes that he would attempt it a...
He didn’t want to miss his chance to speak with Schott, but he didn’t want to stand in a tight space with a man who had thirty knives nearby, and knew how to use them.Impulsively he crossed the street and opened the door.As soon as the smell hit him he knew it had been a mistake. From twenty feet...
The willow trees bent toward the lake, their lowest branches just brushing the water, and the park’s lone wanderers and couples alike walked more slowly than they had along the fast city blocks, stopping to watch for a while. Lenox always liked to watch the swans gliding serenely, birds with just...
In the end, however, he wasn’t forced to confront the man and merely signed in with Dallington to see Gerald Poole in a small room where prisoners could receive visitors.They went in and found the prisoner sitting at a small table with three rickety stools around it. The room was otherwise empty,...
said Billings. “Unlock me at once! I’ll hang you for treason, on the same rope as Evers!” “Mr. Evers is innocent. There was no true mutiny among the men of the Lucy. It was never likely, given their loyalty. Mr. Pettegree, perhaps you would fetch Evers up. The welt he gave himself was an excellen...
That was the question that had carried him through the trip, from the silken fields of Sussex to the bright din of King’s Cross Station. It was so hard to say. The names and files of their clients were all held securely in a safe in Lenox’s office. Only the three partners had access to that safe ...