num_pages: 304
description: Its 1876 and Charles Lenox once Londons 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 work Lenox begins to question whether he can still play the game as he once did.Then comes a chance to redeem himself though at a terrible price: a friend a member of Scotland Yard is shot near Regents Park. As Lenox begins to parse the peculiar details of the death  an unlaced boot a days-old wound an untraceable luggage ticket  he realizes that the incident may lead him into grave personal danger beyond which lies a terrible truth.With all the humanity glamor and mystery that readers have come to love the latest Lenox novel is a shining new confirmation of the enduring popularity of Charles Finchs Victorian series.
language: English
title: The Laws of Murder
publisher: Minotaur Books