<p><b>In Charles Finch&apos;s <i>A Stranger in Mayfair</i>, the next enthralling installment in the Charles Lenox Mysteries, detective Lenox tries to resist the lure of a case and focus on his new career in Parliament. </b><br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> Going into the boxing clubs and public houses, the Mayfair mansions and servants&apos; quarters of Victorian London, Lenox gradually realizes that an old friend may be implicated in the footman&apos;s death. Soon a suspect is arrested, but Lenox has his doubts. Desperately trying to balance the opening of Parliament and what he feels sure is a dark secret surrounding the murder, he soon discovers that the killer is someone seemingly beyond suspicion, and may be prepared to spill blood again—even a detective&apos;s.</p>