![]() ![]() If you are a detective and a gentleman, expect to be unheralded - misunderstood except by your friends, and even by them sometimes - looked on as somewhat odd, if harmless. He views his profession pragmatically, as he tells a potential colleague interested in working for him: " is, in my mind at least, both one of the least respected professions among our kind of people and one of the most important and noble in its purpose. The plot proceeds at a moderate, methodical pace, much like Lenox himself. The September Society is exceptionally well written, with solid characters and a strong sense of time and place. Lenox, unable to prevent Payson's murder, is determined to find out who killed him and why. ![]() ![]() The police eventually recover a body from the local woods that, though badly decomposed, is identified as Payson. Lenox begins his investigation by locating Payson's friends, but one of them has also gone missing. Other oddities include a neat line of ask under a window, a pulpy fried tomato on the rug, and a card identifying The September Society on the front, and a pink and black X on the back. When Lenox visits Payson's rooms in Oxford, he finds an unusual assortment of items, the most extraordinary of which is a dead cat, stabbed with a letter opener, under which is found a note with cryptic writing. The young man is George Payson, son of Lady Annabelle Payson, the widow of Captain James Payson who died during the Anglo-Sikh wars twenty years earlier. Review: Private detective Charles Lenox is hired to search for a missing student at his alma mater, Oxford, in The September Society, the second mystery in this series by Charles Finch. ![]()
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