When news of his brother's murder reached him, aether pilot John Farnley raced back to his old family home.
While he comforts his bereaved sister-in-law, and tries to sort the family business and holdings, he also wonders why his brother, Lord Nicholas Farnley, had ventured into the cramped streets of the East End of London where he had met his violent end.
The slums are a deadly place where life was cheap and murderous thugs preyed on the weak and lost.
Now, in the midst of a.