Fergus Hume's Gothic mystery
begins one evening in late-nineteenth-century Verona, when a young
Englishman loses his way and finds himself lost in an eerie graveyard.
Seeing a mysterious woman emerge from one of the tombs, he follows her
to a deserted mansion, where he witnesses a murder worthy of the
Borgias. How can such a crime take place undetected in the prosaic
nineteenth century? And is the woman a vampire? a ghoul? or an
altogether more earthly villain...?
A fin-de-siecle crime thriller from the author of The Mystery of a
Hansom Cab, this is a classic Victorian mystery dripping with period
atmosphere and and Italian romance.
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