The latest mystery in the popular Victorian crime series featuring the
ever-curmudgeonly private detective, Sidney Grice, and the charming
March Middleton.
London, 1884.
125 Gower Street, the residence of Sidney Grice, London's foremost
personal detective, and his ward March Middleton, is at peace.
Midnight discussions between the great man and his charge have led to a
harmony unseen in these hallowed halls since the great frog disaster of
1878.
But harmony cannot last for long. A knock on the door brings mystery and
murder once more to their home. A mystery that involves a Prussian
Count, two damsels in distress, a Chinaman from Wales, a gangster
looking for love, and the shadowy ruin of a once-loved family home,
Steep House . . .