Take a murder, an arranged marriage, a lovestruck lawyer, and a femme fatale with dark and unfulfilled desires; together with a cast of well-to-do men and women and a notorious Moroccan bandit and chieftain with a passion for the European female; and what do you have?

A romance of intrigue, crime and passion, of the 1920's by way of a homage to the late-and-great Edgar Wallace from the pen of his friend and admirer, Viscount Evelyn Bayliss.

Retro crime fiction in the style of the masters of the first half of the twentieth-century.