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A Stranger In Mayfair (2010)

by Charles Finch(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0312625065 (ISBN13: 9780312625061)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Minotaur Books

series

Charles Lenox Mysteries

review 1: KIND OF a mess. I'd probably be less annoyed if my copy from the library weren't written all over by some angry copy editor/~scholar of nobility. The Denver Metro Editing Police has a point, though: this needed editing, tightening, fact checking, and a little oomph. I guess similar to the way I don't think about an actor being good until I see an actor who is not good, I don't really think about mysteries being well written until I find one that is NOT well written.
review 2: New favorite thing: sitting in front of the fire with tea and fruitcake reading about a man sitting in front of the fire with tea and a book of Roman history or Elizabeth Gaskell. American, like Martha Grimes, Charles Finch is the male Anne Perry (Australian), giving us this Charles Lenox ... moreseries, as sprightly informative of 1850-60s London, as sweet in love, as intriguing and as well written as those by the two women (Pitt works in the 1870-80s and Jury is 1990s into 2007). All best read in order, and as we greet #28 in the Pitt series and perhaps #23 in the Jury, I hope Finch's Six will grow to as long a list (Finch is 42 years younger than Perry and 49 years younger than Grimes, so there is hope). This #4 Lenox is the best so far, I think, with a closer and more intriguing look at political workings (cholera question in Parliament!) and the rocky shoals of post-honeymoon marriage, even when the couple wants nothing more than to be married, and how couples, happy and unhappy, manage. All this is simply presented, easy to follow, and even the murder plot (with sadly mixed-up marriages at the root) is just convoluted enough to trip through easily. less

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