Publisher's Synopsis
"These events provide succulent fodder for fans of Victorian mysteries. Fine prose, high society, and complex plot recommend this series debut for most collections." LIBRARY JOURNAL England, 1892, and Queen Victoria is in the fifty-fourth year of her reign. Prince Eddy, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, second in line to the throne, is found slaughtered in his bed at Sandringham, Norfolk. Terrified of scandal, the Prince of Wales and his spin doctors decide to disguise the murder as death by influenza. Lord Francis Powerscourt, an Irish investigator, is asked secretly to find the killer, but there are many possible suspects. Powerscourt's quest takes him deep into Prince Eddy's debauched and dissolute past. Through a web of scandal and suicide, vice and revenge, he at last unravels the mystery.
