![]() ![]() My taste is all over the place, though I tend to really like literary and mystery fiction. Like most people on this website, I'm a huge reader. I also write book reviews for the New York Times, USA Today, and the Chicago Tribune and essays in many different places. My name is Charles Finch - welcome! I'm the author of the Charles Lenox series of historical mysteries, as well as a recent novel about expatriate life in Oxford, THE LAST ENCHANTMENTS. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. What could the September Society have to do with it? What specter, returned from the past, is haunting gentle Oxford? Lenox, with the support of his devoted friends in London s upper crust, must race to discover the truth before it comes searching for him, and dangerously close to home. Then, just as Lenox realizes that the case may be deeper than it appears, a student dies, the victim of foul play. 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. Lady Annabelle s problem is her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at Oxford. In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. He saw several small artifacts of the missing student s life-a frayed piece of string about two feet long of the sort you might bind a package with, half of a pulpy fried tomato, which was too far from the breakfast table to have been dropped, a fountain pen, and lastly, a card which said on the front The September Society. ![]() The sitting room looked as familiar as the back of his hand, and immediately Lenox took a liking to the young man who inhabited it. ![]()
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