An assistant commissioner of the London police, a retired general, a diplomat, a judge, a banker... The interests of all these people have never overlapped. But on the very same day, they all receive anonymous letters from the same blackmailer, who threatens to tell the newspapers about misconduct they committed in the past. Now each of them may lose the most precious treasure a member of high society can have—an impeccable reputation. And the general isn’t just frightened anymore: on the threshold of his home, a corpse is found—a sinister warning that the blackmailer’s intentions are serious...
So Superintendent Thomas Pitt will have to investigate two cases at once, complicated by the fact that one of the blackmailed men is his direct superior, while the other is a longtime good friend of his wife Charlotte…