Чарльз Финч

Аристократ Чарльз Ленокс — не только прирожденный детектив-любитель, но и истинный джентльмен, всегда готовый совершить благородный поступок. Потому когда его просит о помощи леди Аннабел Пейсон — ее сын Джордж бесследно исчез прямо из Линкольн-колледжа в Оксфорде, — он немедленно отправляется туда. Что же произошло?! В комнате пропавшего множество улик, среди которых заколотый кинжалом кот, зашиф...

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 chance to unravel a mystery. Prudence Smith, one of Jane’s former servants, is dead of an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinist...

In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle’s problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at Oxford. When Lenox visits his alma mater to investigate, he discovers a series of bizarre clues, including a murdered cat and a card cryptically referring to the September Society. Then, just as Lenox r...

Викторианский аристократ Чарльз Ленокс - истинный джентльмен, всегда готовый совершить благородный поступок. А потому, когда подруга детства леди Джейн просит его провести собственное, приватное расследование обстоятельств смерти ее хорошенькой горничной Пруденс Смит, Чарльз повинуется - и сразу замечает крайне странные обстоятельства дела. На первый взгляд Пруденс явно покончила с собой. Но г...

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 unsettling facts about the family he served and a strange, second identity that the footman himself cultivated. Going into the boxing clubs and pub...

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 sleuth Charles Lenox, recently engaged to his best friend, Lady Jane Grey, is happily celebrating the holiday in his Mayfair townhouse. Across London, however,...