A Burial at Sea (34 page)
Authors: Charles Finch
Lenox laughed. “Well, there’s a great deal to tell…”
The reunion between father and son was no less happy. As he was reassuring himself that his son had retained all of his limbs on his first sea voyage, Edmund Lenox caught a glimpse of Charles out of the corner of his eye, and it made him glad somewhere deep within to have his brother back on English soil.
“Sophia,” he heard Charles whisper to Jane, and she smiled and embraced him. Edmund remembered hearing it very specifically, the whisper, but he did not learn the meaning and import of that stray word until several months later: Only after Charles and Jane had their child, a baby girl.
Also by Charles Finch
A Beautiful Blue Death
The September Society
The Fleet Street Murders
A Stranger in Mayfair
CHARLES FINCH is a graduate of Yale and Oxford. His debut in the series,
A Beautiful Blue Death
, was nominated for an Agatha Award and named one of
Library Journal
’s Best Books of 2007, and
The Fleet Street Murders
was a 2010 Nero Award finalist. He lives in Oxford, England.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
A BURIAL AT SEA.
Copyright © 2011 by Charles Finch. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Finch, Charles (Charles B.)
A burial at sea / Charles Finch.—1st ed.
p. cm.
E-ISBN 9781429980708
1. Lenox, Charles (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3606.I526B87 2011
813'.6—dc23
2011026214
First Edition: November 2011
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