When a physician is butchered, everyone in the Devil's Acre, even the toughest of its inhabitants,express shock. Yet three more people are discovered, murdered with a crudeness matching the first, prompting Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte to compete against the clock to uncover the murderer. As the treacherous enigma opens up, no one - from the most debauched wretch to the most elite of the aristocracy - escapes unscathed...
