After detective Sidney Griese is asked by a young woman to investigate the death of her father, he is intrigued when he discovers that the aunt, uncle, and servants of the victim were murdered under the same circumstances ten years earlier.
In 1883 London, March Middletonthe niece of the citys greatest, and most cantankerous, private detectivemust prove her innocence with the help of her uncle when she is accused of murdering a wealthy long-lost relative.