"London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a curious case concerning her fiancae, proprietor Lily Raynor is intrigued - and privately excited. For accepting the case means taking an unexpected tripabroad, to France. Phyllida's fiancae, Wilberforce, is currently in an asylum in Brittany, after a tragic incident which resulted in the death of his father. Did he kill him on purpose - or was it...