In 1925 a distinguished London lawyer is murdered in his rooms in the prestigious Bedford Row. The victim's niece, Renee Marchmont, the proprietor of an agence de voyage, is determined to help the police unravel a web of intrigue and underhanded dealings, unearthed from the past and the present, to find the killer. Equally important is finding out the truth about her beloved's father, the main suspect, someone her uncle said was involved in a scandal 25 years earlier.

This deliciously complex tale is for those who enjoy historic fiction, who-done-its, and crime dramas set in the early 20th century, a time when there were no computers and detectives and criminals lived by their wits. Readers who yearn for a time when life was measured and people communicated in person, by telegram and post, and sometimes by telephone; they lived in the city, took a cab or rode a bicycle, and travelled by steam train, and abroad by ship.