Publisher's Synopsis
Meet Octavius Rixton, a young Victorian gentleman who quotes Shakespeare and leads a double life as Octavius Fanks, detective. When a man is found dead of a morphine overdose in the village of Jarlchester, the jury decide upon a verdict of suicide. But Fanks isn't so sure. As he investigates he becomes increasingly suspicious of the French chemist's assistant Monsieur Jules Guinaud (known locally as Monsieur Judas). But soon, Fanks is soon forced to confront the possibility that the real culprit could be anyone!!
