Lenox’s Sherlock-ian methods of deduction keep the narrative charged, and his soberness surrounding murder is a welcome touch: “this woman had lived she had breathed as they all breathed here upon Bankside now now she was gone. He can’t risk a second “perfect” murder, which, if the Challenger letter is to be believed, will happen at any moment. Even though Lenox’s gentleman-detective vibe is a source of mockery at Scotland Yard, he takes his findings to the chief right away. A woman, strangled, washed up in a wooden box on Walnut Island, and no one has reported her missing. When a letter shows up in the Challenger boasting of the perfect crime, Lenox and his school friend–turned-valet, Graham, at first believe it a hoax until they connect the dots to an unsolved murder from a few weeks prior. Lenox is determined to begin his career as a private detective, hoping to find his first big case from the multitude of crime stories in London’s newspapers. Our detective has just turned 23 at the start of Finch’s ( The Inheritance, 2016, etc.) 11th mystery. The prequel to the career of astute Victorian private detective Charles Lenox.
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