“Some Danger Involved” is how the job posting reads that brings Thomas Llewelyn to interview with Cyrus Barker, a mysterious and strange enquiry agent in Victorian London. Llewelyn is young, newly widowed, just out of jail, down on his luck and has decided that if he doesn’t get this job he will throw himself off a roof top.

What a great start! With that you are whisked in the seedy side of London in the late 1800s. Each book explores a different area of the city and this one takes us to the Jewish ghetto. A fun, quick read with marvelous characters.