Lenox

[len-uhks]

noun

1. a town in W Massachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills: a former estate Tanglewood in the area is the site of annual summer music festivals.

Example Sentences

He’s meeting a Portsmouth ship arriving from India bearing his second cousin, Angela and — a surprise to Lenox — her lifelong friend and companion, an Indian girl named Sari.

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Lenox’s loyalty and affection for his first cousin, Jasper — who moved to India as a young man and lived there until his death — spurs him to welcome the two young women into his household in London.

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Meanwhile, Lenox investigates the mysterious death of a chemist and the former occupant of rooms now inhabited by a beloved housekeeper from Lenox’s early days as a London detective working with Graham, his lifelong friend and former valet.

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As Lenox and Graham, now an influential member of parliament, join forces to investigate the case, it leads them to a sordid, underground London, populated by the upper crust and criminal classes, the ordinary people caught in between who did not have what Lenox recognizes as his privilege or his opportunities.

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An intriguing denouement confirms that readers of icons from Charles Dickens to Anne Perry can do no better than spending time with Charles Lenox, his family and ever-widening circle of friends.

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