In 1851, private detective Laetitia Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman and neighbor Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and wants her to find his brother, who has been missing for years. Joshua Welland, a brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor Oxford scholar, was last seen ten years earlier in a gypsy camp, where it was rumored he was learning great secrets that would one day astound the world. Mrs. Rodd travels to Oxford to begin her search, but when a violent murder is committed, she is convinced that something very sinister is lurking in the beautiful English countryside.

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Kate Saunders.