![]() What follows is an epic journey of secrets, deceit, and betrayals. ![]() The obsessive hunt for him that began in the last days of the Civil War becomes Pinkerton's inheritance. The dead woman fits the description of a grifter Pinkerton had been pursuing for a long time-someone he believed would lead him to a man he has been hunting since his father's death.Įdward Shade is an industrialist without a past, a fabled con, a thief of other men's futures-he seems a ghost, a man of smoke. The famed American detective William Pinkerton is summoned by Scotland Yard to investigate. A severed head is dredged from the Thames ten miles away, a woman's body is discovered on Edgeware Road. Three years before the Whitechapel killings, London is a city of fog and darkness. A literary tour de force of a detective's ceaseless hunt for an elusive criminal ![]()
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