![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is aided in his investigation by Sheffield and Charlotte Sloane, a widow who successfully took over her late husband’s role as a political cartoonist, and whose contacts were very helpful in Wrexford’s previous case.Īmong the suspects are a fanatical group of Luddites who are against the modernization of machinery, believing that these improvements will put more and more working people out on the streets. However, as more information comes out about the murdered man-a brilliant inventor who was close to designing a major improvement in steam engine design-the plot, like the London fog, thickens.Īlthough loath to become involved in solving another murder not long after he himself had been a prime suspect in a previous case ( Murder on Black Swan Lake, 2017), Lord Wrexford is asked by the dead man’s wife to help find the killer. When the Earl of Wrexford and his friend Christopher Sheffield come upon a man brutally stabbed to death on a dark street in Regency-era London one night, the initial reaction of the authorities is to believe it’s a simple robbery gone bad. ![]()
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