Sometimes the truth is closer to home than we dare to imagine…
‘You’re not going to be best pleased. It’s a case of murder.’
With these words from a Bow Street Runner, that nonpareil of Regency London, Charles Edward Graham Dornay, fifth Earl of Moriston, finds himself entangled with the violent and mysterious death of a lady of easy virtue.
The prime suspect?
His own secretary, saturnine Francis Mervyn.
His lordship’s first move is to interview the murdered girl’s best friend, that dazzling star of the operatic firmament, Miss Katharine Kenwood.
He expects to meet a highly-strung lady of doubtful respectability, but instead finds himself falling headlong irretrievably in love.
But he speedily discovers that it is no easy task to woo a hostile and suspicious lady on the one hand and to try to solve a murder on the other.
If he takes his eye off the ball for a second, disaster could strike.
And with the clock ticking, can he solve the case in time?