The Crime of a Christmas Toy

When Lord Senfrey is killed by a booby-trapped wedding present on the night before his impending nuptials, the case is the talk of Victorian high society. Who could possibly have wanted to murder the kind old peer? Could it really be true that the murder is an act of revenge for Lord Senfrey’s cruel treatment of impoverished actress Maria Orano? Private detective George Grey is convinced that there is a connection between the Senfrey murder and the evil machinations of Levantine businessman Count Gyffa Brodie – and when Senfrey’s family engages him to investigate the case, he is determined to go to any lengths to prove his theory…

A classic Victorian crime thriller, first published in 1893