From award-winning author John MacLachlan Gray comes a mesmerizing novel of corruption and murder through the looking-glass of Victorian London.Edmund Whitty writes lurid articles for the London press. Hes investigating a quack psychic who has been murdered after revealing a scandal involving Whittys late brother. Whittys search for the truth takes him back to Oxford, where a brilliant and eccentric cleric who delights in playing croquet, telling childrens stories and taking little girls pictures, may or may not be involved with a murderous ring of child pornographers. Gray, who evoked the mean streets and byways of 1852 London with a skill worthy of Dickens (Publishers Weekly) in The Fiend in Human, spins an even more irresistible tale of the dark secrets behind the facades of Victorian respectability.From the Hardcover edition.