A victim no one can identify – in a town full of secrets…

Rusty Macduff, private detective, learnt his trade in London when Victoria was on the throne and the first consulting detectives were on the streets, hunting down the sort of criminal who seemed to have stepped from the pages of a halfpenny comic.

Now he's stuck in the country with a war wound, only able to take on the cases everyone else turns down.

A man has been found murdered in a locked alleyway in an ordinary market town. The criminals of old London were bad but tended to leave a trail of clues. A criminal like the one he is now dealing with didn't even have the decency to leave the clue of a relatively intact victim.

But a niche is a niche. Rusty has a whole range of techniques to get him through this sort of case – and he'll need them and more.

Something very bad is happening in a town where nothing is as it seems – and Rusty might not have long before the killer strikes again…

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