When Wrexford and Kit stumble across a dead body on their way home from an evening of cards and dice, Wrexford is determined to stay out of the matter and let the proper authorities handle it.  However, the widow of the man comes calling the next day, asking him to investigate the matter as her husband Elihu Ashton, an inventor, thought highly of Wrexford’s scientific work, and she believes he was murdered in order to steal his latest invention.  Charlotte gets pulled in both due […]

The Earl of Wrexford is more interested in chemistry than society or his reputation.  So when the satirist A. J. Quill skewers his current conflict with an anti-science preacher, Wrexford doesn’t much care.  However, when said preacher is murdered and Bow Street decides that he’s the most likely culprit, Wrexford sets out to clear his name, and since Quill seems always know details that no one else does, he plans on tracking down the cartoonist.  Charlotte Sloane took up her husband’s trade after his death […]