A Beautiful Blue Death

A Beautiful Blue Death

By: Charles Finch
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

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... Read More »

The September Society

By: Charles Finch
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

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... Read More »

The Fleet Street Murders

By: Charles Finch
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No

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 but must leave it behind to... Read More »

A Stranger in Mayfair

By: Charles Finch
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No

Returning from a continental honeymoon with his new wife, Lady Jane, 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 some unsettling facts about the family he served and a strange, second identity that the footman himself cultivated. Going into the... Read More »

A Burial at Sea

By: Charles Finch
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No

Eighteen seventy-three is a perilous time in the relationship between France and England. When a string of English spies is found dead on French soil, the threat of all-out war prompts government officials to ask Charles Lenox to visit the newly-dug Suez Canal on a secret mission. Once he is on board the Lucy, however, Lenox finds himself using... Read More »

The Laws of Murder

By: Charles Finch
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new detective agency, the first of its kind. But as the months pass, and he is the only detective who cannot find... Read More »

The Inheritance

By: Charles Finch
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

A mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called “a sterling addition to this well-polished series.”

Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea for help from an old Harrow schoolmate, Gerald Leigh, but when he... Read More »

The Woman in the Water

By: Charles Finch
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No

London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a name for himself as a detective . . . without a single case. Scotland Yard refuses to take him seriously and his friends deride him for attempting a profession at all. But when an anonymous writer sends a letter to the paper claiming to have committed the perfect crime—and promising to kill... Read More »

The Vanishing Man

By: Charles Finch
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No

"James Langton offers a splendid narration...He makes the thefts, kidnapping, and murder a delicious puzzle for the struggling young detective and for listeners, as well." — AudioFile Magazine

From the critically acclaimed and USA Today bestselling author Charles Finch comes The Vanishing Man, the second in a prequel trilogy to his Charles Lenox... Read More »

The Last Passenger

By: Charles Finch
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

“No mystery writer except perhaps Anne Perry is as successful as Charles Finch at evoking the atmosphere of Victorian London” - Washington Post

From bestselling author Charles Finch comes the third and final in a prequel trilogy to his lauded Charles Lenox series.

London, 1855. A young and eager Charles Lenox faces his toughest case yet: a murder... Read More »

A Death in the Small Hours

By: Charles Finch
Narrated by: James Langton
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted new father. His days of regularly investigating the crimes of Victorian London now some years behind him, he plans a trip to his uncle's estate in the expectation of a few calm weeks. When he arrives in the quiet village of Plumley, however, what greets him is a series... Read More »