Edmund Reid is drawn back to Whitechapel to investigate a case made by Captain Homer Jackson and Detective Inspector Bennet Drake that has condemned his old friend, Isaac Bloom, to hang for a murder.
Reid is back in Whitechapel to investigate a case made by Jackson and Drake that condemned his old associate Isaac Bloom to the noose. And Bloom is not the only one set for the rope: Long Susan awaits her fate. But does Jackson have a plan to save her? Drake looks into the case of an Indian man found murdered, as the forces of Britain's empire descend upon London to celebrate the queen's Jubilee.
