Mystery
A Beautiful Blue Death
2007·336 pages
A Victorian gentleman detective leaves his quiet study to investigate a servant’s apparent suicide that may be murder by rare poison.
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A Victorian gentleman detective leaves his quiet study to investigate a servant’s apparent suicide that may be murder by rare poison.
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On any given day in London, all Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, wants to do is relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist another chance to unravel a mystery, even if it means trudging through the snow to her townhouse next door. One of Jane's former servants, Prudence Smith, is dead - an apparent suicide. But Lenox suspects something far more sinister: murde...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Mild romantic tension with Lady Jane; no explicit content
Violence & gore
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Poison murders and a second body; deaths without graphic gore
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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Social tea and period drinking in Victorian society settings
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Not present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Background Victorian class structure and high society
Self-harm / suicide
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Central death staged as suicide; revealed as murder
Abuse & suffering
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Murder of a former housemaid; class disparities noted
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