#1 – Interviewing the Dead
In London in 1892, excavations at Aldgate disturb a burial pit created during the Great Plague of 1665. A celebrated spiritualist claims that the displaced dead are punishing the city, and unexplained deaths in the East End give the warning a frightening appearance of truth. Preacher…
#2 – Death Comes but Twice
London, 1893. Doctor James Carlyle is asked to examine a murder victim and discovers through the new science of fingerprinting that the dead man is Artus Skuja, a criminal officially hanged the previous year. The identification appears impossible, and the execution record only deepens the mystery.…
#3 – Confronting the Invisible
London in 1893. When doctor James Carlyle attends a show at a local circus with his daughter, Adelaide, he is rushed backstage to help with what appears to be a horrific accident. One of the performers, Robert Manston, has died after falling during an act. But…
#4 – Death Among the Nightingales
London in 1895. Matthew and Adelaide West are now happily married with a one-year-old daughter. But Adelaide has always sought after a profession outside of the home. And when celebrated nursing reformer, Florence Nightingale, offers her a job, she cannot refuse. A Fenian bomb has blasted…