This enter­tain­ing his­tor­i­cal mys­tery is the excit­ing debut nov­el from Lon­don-based musi­cian and screen­writer A.E. Goldin. Thrilling­ly paced and with an enchant­i­ng his­tor­i­cal set­ting, it launch­es an unfor­get­table new hero in a series that pro­vides all the nos­tal­gic read­ing plea­sure of clas­sic Sher­lock Holmes.

Lon­don, 1854. 21-year-old Ben Canaan attracts trou­ble wher­ev­er he goes. His father wants him to be a good Jew­ish son, work­ing for the fam­i­ly busi­ness on Whitechapel Road, but Ben and his friends, the ​‘Good-for-Noth­ings’, just want adven­ture.

Then the chance dis­cov­ery of an enig­mat­ic let­ter and a pho­to­graph of a beau­ti­ful woman bring Ben an adven­ture more dan­ger­ous than any­thing he’d imag­ined. Sud­den­ly he is thrown into the heart of a mys­tery that takes him away from every­thing he has known and all the way to Con­stan­tino­ple, the jew­el of an empire and the cen­tre of a world on the brink of war.

Ben’s only clue is 3 words: ​‘The White Death’. Now he must find what links a string of gris­ly mur­ders, fol­low­ing a trail through king­mak­ing and con­spir­a­cy, poi­son and high pol­i­tics, blood­shed and betray­al. In a city of dead­ly secrets, no one is safe – and one wrong step could cost Ben his life.