1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen's
convenience cubicle at the British Museum, the stall locked from the
inside. Professor Lance Pickering had been due to give a talk promoting
the museum's new 'Age of King Arthur' exhibition when he was stabbed
repeatedly in the chest. Having forged a strong reputation working
alongside the inimitable Inspector Abberline on the Jack the Ripper
case, Daniel Wilson is called in to solve the mystery of the locked
cubicle murder, and he brings his expertise and archaeologist Abigail
Fenton with him.
But it isn't long before the museum becomes the site of another fatality
and the pair face mounting pressure to deliver results. With enquiries
compounded by persistent journalists, local vandals and a fanatical
society, Wilson and Fenton face a race against time to salvage the
reputation of the museum and catch a murderer desperate for revenge.