In Regency England, the Earl of Wrexford, an eminent scientist, discovers the body of a gifted inventor murdered in an alley. After reporting the death to the authorities, Wrexford is drawn into the investigation after the man's widow insists it was not a random robbery. The inventor's plans for a revolutionary improvement to the steam engine have gone missing, plans that are worth a fortune. Wrexford, his friend and political cartoonist Charlotte Sloane, and her two young wards join in the hunt for the killer. Suspects abound but as soon as they are sure of a suspect that suspect meets the same bloody death as the inventor. Wrexford and Sloane gather the local street urchins, friends of Sloane's wards, to be on watch and relay messages, much like Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street Irregulars. During all this, the local constabulary are pretty much useless. Lots of twists and turns in the story. This is the second book in the Wrexford & Sloane series but the only one I have read.
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