Any resident of a quiet and respectable London neighborhood around Trafalgar Square knows they should stay away from an old mansion called the Silent House. After all, there’s a bad rumor about it, and no sensible person would ever live there. So when a new tenant moved in, local society immediately boiled over with gossip. Especially because the tenant was very strange—reclusive, with a scar on his cheek, and almost never seen in the street.
A young barrister, Lucian Denzil, renting a room next door, also wants to find out what kind of oddball has moved into a house with such a bad reputation. Just a brief meeting with him only whets his curiosity. But when the occupant of the mansion is found stabbed in his own home, Lucian becomes determined to uncover the story of his life—and his death…