Thomas Shield, a young schoolmaster in Regency London, finds himself drawn into a murky world of money and murder. Elegant country houses and drinking dens, pimps and baronets, new money, old money and those without money leap off the pages of this spellbinding story. You will happily lose yourself in this tangled tale which can be mentioned in the same breath as the work of Dickens, Austen and Eliot.
