{"product_id":"extravagant-death","title":"Extravagant Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLondon, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers him the opportunity to undertake a diplomatic mission for the Queen, Lenox welcomes the chance to satisfy an unfulfilled yearning: to travel to America. Arriving in New York, he begins to receive introductions into both its old Knickerbocker society and its new robber baron splendor. Then, a shock: the death of the season's most beautiful debutante, who appears to have thrown herself from a cliff. Or was it murder? Lenox's reputation has preceded him to the States, and he is summoned to a magnificent Newport mansion to investigate the mysterious death. What ensues is a fiendish game of cat and mouse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Witty, complex, and tender, \u003ci\u003eAn Extravagant Death\u003c\/i\u003e is Charles Finch's triumphant return to the main storyline of his beloved Charles Lenox series--a devilish mystery, a social drama, and an unforgettable first trip for an Englishman coming to America.","brand":"Minotaur Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48515556081913,"sku":"9781250767158","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/1811\/7625\/files\/imageloader_bd1752ae-eee2-4218-a7cc-8ad87e50c2d2.jpg?v=1781207990","url":"https:\/\/hookeandplotte.com\/products\/extravagant-death","provider":"Hooke and Plotte Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}