Dispatched to France to help a glamorous war widow prove that a mysterious amnesiac soldier is actually her husband, Joe Sandilands investigates four conflicting identifications as well as the suspicions of the man's doctor.

"One morning before dawn at her regal country estate, Lady Lavinia Truelove is crushed to death by a horse. Classified as "death by misadventure," this appears a gruesome accident, but Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands suspects foul play--a misgiving he is struggling to separate from his personal grievances toward Sir James Truelove, who is Lady Lavinia's widower and the influential academic patron of Dorcas Joliffe, whom Joe one day hopes to...