David Pirie

Young Arthur Conan Doyle, working under criminal investigation pioneer Dr. Joseph Bell, tackles the most disturbing case of his fledgling career when a serial murderer begins assaulting women in Edinburgh brothels.

Edinburgh 1878. Mr. Doyle becomes fascinated with Dr. Bell's uncanny talent for outwitting the most clever criminals.

Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend test his relationship with Lewis; a case of rape and murder causes Lewis to...