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"Huang's impressive debut will delight fans of golden age detective
fiction." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Dorothy Sayers is alive and well and writing under the name of
Christopher Huang." --Rhys Bowen, New York Times-bestselling author of
The Tuscan Child
"A must read for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Charles Todd, and Anne
Perry." --Daryl Maxwell, Los Angeles Public Library
"Will please fans of both Agatha Christie and Gillian Flynn." --Sarah
Nivala, Book Soup
The year is 1924. The cobblestoned streets of St. James ring with jazz
as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. London's
back alleys, however, are filled with broken soldiers and still
enshadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War.
Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders himself,
Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most
prestigious soldiers-only club in London: The Britannia. But when a
gentleman's wager ends with a member stabbed to death, the victim's last
words echo in the Lieutenant's head: that he would "soon right a great
wrong from the past."
Eric is certain that one of his fellow members is the murderer: but who?
Captain Mortimer Wolfe, the soldier's soldier thrice escaped from German
custody? Second Lieutenant Oliver Saxon, the brilliant codebreaker? Or
Captain Edward Aldershott, the steely club president whose Savile Row
suits hide a frightening collision of mustard gas scars?
Eric's investigation will draw him far from the marbled halls of the
Britannia, to the shadowy remains of a dilapidated war hospital and the
heroin dens of Limehouse. And as the facade of gentlemenhood cracks,
Eric faces a Matryoshka doll of murder, vice, and secrets pointing not
only to the officers of his own club but the very investigator assigned
by Scotland Yard.
