Description

For Superintendent Thomas Pitt, the view of the dead-man driving the day wave of the Thames is memorable. The corpse is based on a punt moving through the first water, dressed in a torn green robe and bestrewn with bouquets. Pitt’s decided look for solutions to the victim’s identification leads him deep into London’s bohemia—to the theater where stunning Cecily Antrim is outraging culture with her daring manifestation of the contemporary lady, and into galleries where experts of light and darkness are testing with the intriguing new craft of photography. But only Pitt’s masterly undercover abilities allow him to recognize the passions raging through this misfortune of bad and good, to search for the guilty and protect the innocent.