The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly
visited by the Queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This
is the second edition, including much new information, of the
full-length account of one of its key players, Jack Saul, an Irish
Catholic rent boy who worked his way into the upper echelons of the
aristocracy, and wrote the notorious pornographic memoir The Sins of the
Cities of the Plain. Glenn Chandler, creator of Taggart, explores his
colourful but tragic life and reveals for the first time the true story
about what really went on behind the velvet curtains of 19 Cleveland
Street.