Fleet Street Murders – Charles Finch

           (Guilty Pleasure)

#2012monopolychallenge – St. Charles Place – a character who is a member of royalty

Third in the Charles Lenox series.

Not really royalty but Charles Lenox comes from an aristocratic family. Both his father and older brother have seats in Parliament. So he is encouraged to run for a seat representing a small town north of London .

As it would happen, 2 men are murdered just at the time Charles has to leave London to do some campaigning for 2 weeks. The murders seems unrelated and Charles is constantly thinking about them and trying to gather information about them while away.

A little boring with the run for a seat in Parliament, even though it has it’s own little mystery surrounding it. But his problem solving of the double murder was intriguing as always.

Goodreads summary:

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, two journalists have just met with violent deaths--one shot, one throttled. Lenox soon involves himself in the strange case, which proves only more complicated as he digs deeper. However, he must leave it behind to go north to Stirrington, where he is fulfilling a lifelong dream: running for a Parliamentary seat. Once there, he gets a further shock when Lady Jane sends him a letter whose contents might threaten their nuptials. In London, the police apprehend two unlikely and unrelated murder suspects. From the start, Lenox has his doubts; the crimes, he is sure, are tied, but how? Racing back and forth between London and Stirrington, Lenox must negotiate the complexities of crime and politics, not to mention his imperiled engagement. As the case mounts, Lenox learns that the person behind the murders might be closer to him--and his beloved--than he knows