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yangyvonne 's review for:
A Beautiful Blue Death
by Charles Finch
In Victorian England, Charles Lenox is a wealthy man with an interest in solving crime. His childhood friend, Lady Jane, tells him of the death of a former servant of hers and asks him to investigate. Thus begins Lenox's adventure into the murder of Miss Prue and then Soames (a member of Parliament). He enlists the help of his butler, Graham, his brother Edmund (also in Parliament), his chemist friend and others he has met through the years. In the end, he solves the murders, but only later comes to realize there was another crime he over-looked along the way.
Although the plot was certainly complicated, the writing was terrible and I couldn't stay awake long enough to get large chunks read at once. The namers were ridiculous (Lady Jane Grey, for example and some of the sub-plots silly. Other main elements were never answered (Who got the poison? What were the mechanics of the murders and the theft?). To top it all off, the book didn't end with solving the crimes - which is just lame. Instead, we get a weird chapter of Lenox back at his childhood estate and then riding-off into the night with Lady Jane.
Although the plot was certainly complicated, the writing was terrible and I couldn't stay awake long enough to get large chunks read at once. The namers were ridiculous (Lady Jane Grey, for example and some of the sub-plots silly. Other main elements were never answered (Who got the poison? What were the mechanics of the murders and the theft?). To top it all off, the book didn't end with solving the crimes - which is just lame. Instead, we get a weird chapter of Lenox back at his childhood estate and then riding-off into the night with Lady Jane.