title: The September Society (Charles Lenox Mysteries)
author:  Charles Finch 
description: As in Conan Doyle's <i>The Sign of Four</i>, a crime committed in India has consequences in England years later in Finch's less than successful second Victorian whodunit to feature amateur detective Charles Lenox (after 2007's <i>A Beautiful Blue Death</i>). Since a prologue set in 1847 India makes clear that a double murder there is connected to a murder in London in 1866, there's little mystery about the general nature of the motive behind the later crime. Lady Annabelle Payson consults the Peter Wimseylike Lenox after the disappearance of her Oxford undergraduate son, George, who left behind in his college room a dead cat and a note referring to the September Society. When George turns up dead as well, Lenox vows to track down the killer, aided by his manservant, the Bunter-like Graham. While neither the prose nor the puzzle are at the level of <i>A Beautiful Blue Death</i>, that volume showed enough promise to suggest that the author is capable of better in the next installment. <i>(Aug.)</i> ""<br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved."
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  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.
  
  THE SEPTEMBER SOCIETY. Copyright © 2008 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.
  
  [www.minotaurbooks.com](http://www.minotaurbooks.com)
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Finch, Charles (Charles B.)
  
  The September Soceity/Charles Finch.—1st ed.  
  p. cm.  
  ISBN-13: 978-0-312-35978-2  
  ISBN-10: 0-312-35978-0  
  1\. Private investigators—England—Fiction. 2. Missing persons—  
  Investigation—Fiction. 3. Co