"Philip Grant’s spin on Sherlock Holmes is irresistible"
- HRF Keating

1895 – Sergeant Bartholomew Holmes of Scotland Yard looks into a weird suicide in Wapping. The trail leads him to a girl’s school, a music hall hypnotist, the Aristocracy and a long forgotten case of poisoning.

With the help of Kitty, The Yard’s first typist and Jasper a street urchin, Holmes uncovers torture, depravity and several corpses, before facing death at the hands of London’s most terrifying killer since Jack the Ripper.