The Shrouded Gentleman

<p>It was a simple choice: The stranger or the hangman. On the eve of Dr. William Johnson's execution a rough mysterious man comes to Newgate Prison demanding his release. The stranger calls himself Detective Coombs. He claims Johnson is his assistant and helped him solve a murder case. Even though they've never met Johnson chooses the lie over the rope.</p><p></p><p>Egged on by the voice of his long-dead twin brother Johnson throws his lot in with Coombs a man who sees solutions to murders that no one else can - solutions that fly in the face of observed reality but turn out to be true. During an investigation at a vicarage deep in the moors a confrontation goes violently wrong leaving Johnson clinging to life and with one final choice this one offered by the voice that may not be his dead brother after all.</p><p></p><p>The Shrouded Gentleman is a murder mystery novel set primarily in Victorian England in 1884 filled with dark humor bloody murders demons autopsies and supernatural forces.</p>