Ratings
Rated: 45 times. Average rating 4.49
Description
When a shy aspiring poet disappears from late-19th-century London after falling in love, his sister's ensuing confrontation with an institution of powerful men is aided by three underworld helpers. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.
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