Longarm must protect his friend from a town that wants her dead. He isn't about to let an innocent woman hang. Instead, he'll make sure the real killer reaches final...
On Christmas Day 1884, a desperate plea from a mysterious woman leads Arthur Conan Doyle—struggling physician, aspiring writer, and part-time demystifier of the occult—to a seance in London’s East End and into a fiendish and deadly trap....