A Remembrance of Rose

I seem to gravitate toward series books, even in mysteries, those with a continuing story line of the persons involved, in this case a lawyer turned investigator.  His name is Lennox Kemp and he is able to empathize with many of his clients since he himself has been in serious trouble with the law.  His wife had run up serious gambling debts and despite a pending divorce, he attempted to help her but with funds belonging to a client.  As a result, he was disbarred and took up private investigating to make ends meet.  In time he was allowed to return to the law, and now he is at a branch in Newton with a prestigious law firm, fortyish, and alone.  He is summoned to a manor house to draw up a new will for a very wealthy woman and to serve as the executor.  Some of the terms of the will do not make Mrs. Armaury’s family happy but since the lady is in command of her senses, the lawyer proceeds.  Before she leaves his office she confides that an attempt on her life has been made.  A few days later Mrs. Armaury is killed during a robbery in her home.  The police think they know the culprit, a local man who has vanished from the town.  Lennox proceeds with his legal duties and the police with theirs.  Just as everything seems to fall into place, a new and disturbing element is introduced which involves the Cold War, defection and espionage.  Lennox manages to take on all matters of corruption in a very interesting and logical way.  You won't be disappointed in the solution.