Publisher's Synopsis
THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist andspecialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of very large and well-lighted french windows, which showed theNorth Sea like one endless outer wall of blue-green marble. In such a placethe sea had something of the monotony of a blue-green dado: for thechambers themselves were ruled throughout by a terrible tidiness not unlikethe terrible tidiness of the sea. It must not be supposed that Dr Hood?sapartments excluded luxury, or even poetry
