"A sentence to Dartmoor Prison is a sentence to a living hell..."
Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate, have heard some truly
awful things about Britain's most notorious prison. But Dartmoor and its
mist-shrouded environs hold special appeal for both Sheridans. Kate
hopes to find inspiration for her new Gothic novel, while Charles plans
to implement a fingerprinting program at the prison--and arrange a
meeting with one of its most infamous inmates, Samuel Spencer. He's
convinced that Spencer--a Scotsman who admitted to killing his wife--is,
in fact, innocent. What's more, he believes he has the evidence to prove
it. But Spencer continues to maintain his own guilt--and, as if to
confirm it, he soon stages a daring prison escape. Lord Charles and his
acquaintance Arthur Conan Doyle are most perplexed by this odd turn of
events. And when a body turns up on the moor, it's up to the two
men--and the clever Kate--to discover if the missing convict is
connected to this murderous new case...