It is 1812 and Sebastian St. Cyr has just been picked up by Hero Jarvis,
daughter of Lord Jarvis. She wants him to investigate a young woman,
whom Hero believes was well-born, and forced into prostitution.
Unfortunately the said young woman was killed in suspicious
circumstances. The home where she was staying was burned to the ground
and several women who were living there also died.
Meantime, Lord Jarvis has assigned his man, Colonel Epsom-Smith, to look
into the matter and discretely kill those responsible. Sir William
Hadley, in charge of Bow Street, refuses to allow St. Cyr's friend Dr.
Paul Gibson to perform any autopsies, despite evidence showing that the
women had been stabbed before being burned. Will St. Cyr and
Epsom-Smith be working together or at cross purposes on this
investigation?
As St. Cyr ramps up his investigation, he finds out that Hadley knew the
victim. Meantime Miss Jarvis has done some investigating of her own
and come up with a possible name for the victim. St. Cyr realises that
he knows the victim's brother. Later one evening two highwaymen attempt
to assassinate Miss Jarvis. She kills one and badly wounds the other.
More deaths will occur before St. Cyr solves this murder mystery.
Author C. S. Harris makes the concluding pages quite thrilling. Quite a
good read.
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