Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Author’s Note

1 All the Widow’s Men

2 A Conspiracy of Bafflement

3 The Mystic Tie

4 The Funny Little Game

5 The Savages

6 On the Square

7 The Ink-Stained Hack

8 The Double Event: Part Two

9 Rotten to the Core

10 ‘They All Love Jack’

11 On Her Majesty’s Service

12 The Mouth of the Maggot

13 A Gentleman’s Lair

14 ‘Orpheus’

15 ‘The Ezekiel Hit’

16 ‘Red Tape’

17 ‘The Spirit of Evil’

18 ‘The Maybrick Mystery’

19 Victorian Values

Appendix I: The Parnell Frame-Up

Appendix II: A Very Curious Letter

Acknowledgements

Sources

Picture Credits

Index

Also by Bruce Robinson

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