When London police inspector Thomas Pitt began investigating the murder of a young girl named Fanny Nash, he didn’t yet know that the victim was, in essence, still a child—innocent and harmless. In addition, the examination established that shortly before her death, Fanny had been raped. The tragedy occurred literally two steps away from her brother’s home, where she lived in a respectable neighborhood on Paragon Walk.
Shocked, Pitt immediately understood that this case would become his personal problem. The point was that at that time almost all the servants had unassailable alibis, and a stranger had virtually no chance of remaining unnoticed here. That meant the murderer—and the rapist—was one of the men living in the area. And that includes Thomas’s own brother-in-law, Lord George Ashwood. But he had no alibi…