Publisher's Synopsis
"...an alluring love story, copious action and a solution wholly surprising." NEW YORK TIMES One October night in the middle of the twentieth century, Detective-Superintendent John Cheviot got into a taxi, bound for New Scotland Yard. When he stepped out it was from a horse-drawn cab, the year was 1829, and a beautiful woman was beckoning him in from Old Scotland Yard. There were things he couldn't remember - and things he didn't know - like the state of his romance with Lady Flora. Then Cheviot suddenly found himself and his lady accused of cruel murder...
