Entrate nelle nebbiose strade della Londra vittoriana, dove crimine e intrighi dell'alta società si scontrano. Questa serie intreccia magistralmente misteri avvincenti, spesso con figure letterarie che risolvono casi complessi. Ogni episodio approfondisce oscure trame, ricatti e omicidi, dove scoprire la verità è un'impresa pericolosa. È un emozionante viaggio in un'epoca passata, perfetto per gli amanti della narrativa poliziesca storica.
Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins team up after a housemaid is dragged from the River Thames in this new Victorian mystery series. The woman was being blackmailed, but by who and why? The woman's friend, Sesina, discovers only fragments of the woman's journal... but is she withholding information or doomed to end up like her friend?
November, 1853. Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins are summoned to examine a body found in an attic studio, surrounded by a lacerated painting titled A Winter of Despair. Wilkie recognizes the victim as a friend of his brother Charley. What secrets lie among the close-knit group of Pre-Raphaelite painters who were the victim's friends?