Named a 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist Now in development for television with Endeavor Content 'Huang's impressive debut will delight fans of golden age detective fiction.' —Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'Dorothy Sayers is alive and well and writing under the name of Christopher Huang.' —Rhys Bowen, New York Times-bestselling author of The Tuscan Child 'A must read for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry.' —Daryl Maxwell, Los Angeles Public Library 'Will please fans of both Agatha Christie and Gillian Flynn.' —Sarah Nivala, Book Soup The year is 1924. The cobblestoned streets of St. James ring with jazz as Britain races forward into an age of peace and prosperity. London's back alleys, however, are filled with broken soldiers and still enshadowed by the lingering horrors of the Great War. Only a few years removed from the trenches of Flanders himself, Lieutenant Eric Peterkin has just been granted membership in the most prestigious
