Description

The newly lifeless body sprawled on the Bedford Block doorstep of Common Brandon Balantyne is definitely an affront to every reputable feeling. The overall denies all understanding of the shabbily clothed target who has thus rudely arrived at death outside his house, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt can't think him—for within the lifeless man’s wallet, Pitt discovers an unusual snuffbox that lately graced the general’s research. Lest his analysis induce a catastrophe of enormous proportions, ensnaring ethical men like flies in a web, the superintendent should take softly, however. Pitt’s clever wife, Charlotte, becomes his full partner in searching this masterpiece of evil, created by an amorality more than they are able to imagine.