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…