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SUMMARY:Mystery Book Club-Goleta Community Center: "The Hidden City" by Charles Finch
DESCRIPTION:<p></p><p>Join us as we discuss this month’s pick: <b>"The Hidden City" by Charles Finch.</b></p><p><div data-ogsc="black"><i data-ogsc="">It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing from the violent events of his last investigation. But a desperate letter from an old servant forces him to pick up the trail of a cold case: the murder of an apothecary seven years before, whose only clue is an odd emblem carved into the doorway of the building where the man was killed. When Lenox finds a similar mark at the site of another murder, he begins to piece together a hidden pattern which leads him into the corridors of Parliament, the slums of East London, and ultimately the very heart of the British upper class.</i></div><div data-ogsc="black"><i data-ogsc=""><br></i></div><div data-ogsc="black"><i data-ogsc="">At the same time, Lenox must contend with the complexities of his personal life: a surprising tension with his steadfast wife, Lady Jane, over her public support of the early movement for women's suffrage; the arrival of Angela Lenox, a mysterious young cousin from India, with an unexpected companion; the dizzying ascent of his brother, Sir Edmund Lenox, to one of the highest political posts in the land; the growing family of his young partners in detection, Polly and Dallington; and the return of the problems that have long bedeviled one of his closest friends, the dashing Scottish physician Thomas McConnell.</i></div><b><div data-ogsc="black"></div><div><i data-ogsc=""><br></i></div></b></p>
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p>Join us as we discuss this month’s pick: <b>"The Hidden City" by Charles Finch.</b></p><p><div data-ogsc="black"><i data-ogsc="">It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing from the violent events of his last investigation. But a desperate letter from an old servant forces him to pick up the trail of a cold case: the murder of an apothecary seven years before, whose only clue is an odd emblem carved into the doorway of the building where the man was killed. When Lenox finds a similar mark at the site of another murder, he begins to piece together a hidden pattern which leads him into the corridors of Parliament, the slums of East London, and ultimately the very heart of the British upper class.</i></div><div data-ogsc="black"><i data-ogsc=""><br></i></div><div data-ogsc="black"><i data-ogsc="">At the same time, Lenox must contend with the complexities of his personal life: a surprising tension with his steadfast wife, Lady Jane, over her public support of the early movement for women's suffrage; the arrival of Angela Lenox, a mysterious young cousin from India, with an unexpected companion; the dizzying ascent of his brother, Sir Edmund Lenox, to one of the highest political posts in the land; the growing family of his young partners in detection, Polly and Dallington; and the return of the problems that have long bedeviled one of his closest friends, the dashing Scottish physician Thomas McConnell.</i></div><b><div data-ogsc="black"></div><div><i data-ogsc=""><br></i></div></b></p>
LOCATION:Goleta Community Center\, 5679 Hollister Ave. Goleta\, California 93117
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