It is Jim who brings Fred his latest case: a stage magician named Mackinnon fears for his life after receiving psychic impressions of a murder committed by a powerful industrialist.īy a fateful coincidence, Sally happens to be looking into the same industrialist at the same time, trying to find out why a shipping firm went under after one of her clients invested her life savings in it. The year is now 1878, and Sally’s business as a financial consultant is growing, together with her partnership with professional photographer Webster Garland, his dashing nephew Frederick who moonlights as a private detective, and their cockney friend Jim Taylor, who haunts the backstage of London theaters when he isn’t writing melodramas or helping Fred and Sally. In this sequel to The Ruby in the Smoke, several years have passed.
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