Whitty finds himself on a dangerous adventure that will take him into the highest echelons of society, where the bizarre and the sordid are the everyday currency, where young lives are sacrificed at strange whims, where Whitty himself will not escape accusations of murder and terrible imprisonment.

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Crouch Manor, Chester Wolds, Oxfordshire, 1858

Chapter Two

Whitechapel, London

Chapter Three

The Alhambra Baths, Endell Street

Chapter Four

Crouch Manor

Chapter Five

Fleet Street, west of Ludgate

Chapter Six

Bissett Grange, Oxfordshire

Chapter Seven

Plant's Inn

Chapter Eight

5 Buckingham Gate

Chapter Nine

Plant's Inn

Chapter Ten

Eastcheap

Chapter Eleven

The Falcon

Chapter Twelve

The Pith and Paradox

Chapter Thirteen

Bissett Grange

Chapter Fourteen

Crouch Manor

Chapter Fifteen

Millbank Prison

Chapter Sixteen

New Scotland Yard, off Parliament Street

Chapter Seventeen

The Alhambra Baths

Chapter Eighteen

Crouch Manor

Chapter Nineteen

The Hen and Hatchet, Houndsditch

Chapter Twenty

Crouch Manor

Chapter Twenty-One

The Hen and Hatchet

Chapter Twenty-Two

The Hen and Hatchet

Chapter Twenty-Three

The Falcon

Chapter Twenty-Four

Bissett Grange

Chapter Twenty-Five

The Hen and Hatchet

Chapter Twenty-Six

Crouch Manor

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Plant's Inn

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Bissett Grange

Chapter Twenty-Nine

The Pith and Paradox

Chapter Thirty

Bissett Grange

Chapter Thirty-One

Machpelah Square, Mesopotamia

Chapter Thirty-Two

Bissett Grange

Chapter Thirty-Three

Machpelah Square

Chapter Thirty-Four

Crouch Manor

Chapter Thirty-Five

Crouch Manor

Chapter Thirty-Six

The Thames

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Bissett Grange

Chapter Thirty-Eight

The Thames

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Bissett Grange

Chapter Forty

Crouch Manor

Chapter Forty-One

Iffley Lock, Oxfordshire

Chapter Forty-Two

Town of Oxford

Chapter Forty-Three

The Roland Stones

Chapter Forty-Four

Town of Oxford

Chapter Forty-Five

St Ambrose College, Oxford

Chapter Forty-Six

Bissett Grange

Chapter Forty-Seven

Town of Oxford

Chapter Forty-Eight

Bissett Grange

Chapter Forty-Nine

The Roland Stones

Chapter Fifty

Bissett Grange

Chapter Fifty-One

The Wood

Chapter Fifty-Two

Bissett Grange

Chapter Fifty-Three

Bissett Grange

Chapter Fifty-Four

The Alhambra Baths

Epilogue