Realizing instantly the dangers to Serracold, Pitt follows a lead to Cartouche-only to set off a fiendish Inner Circle trap designed to discredit him as well.
No sooner does Pitt settle into the impossible task of helping prevent Voisey’s election than a job presents itself for which he’s much better suited: the murder of spiritualist Maude Lamont, who had been holding regular séances with Serracold’s wife Rose, Major General Roland Kingsley (already the author of a full-bore attack on Serracold), and a tantalizingly elusive third party indicated in the medium’s appointment book only by a cartouche. Pitt’s superior, Assistant Commissioner John Cornwallis, can’t imagine how Voisey will defeat his Liberal opponent, Aubrey Serracold, but smelling a rat, he keeps Pitt from leaving on his well-earned family vacation to Dartmoor and sends him instead to the new antiterrorist Special Branch, where “he was seeking not to solve a crime but to prevent a sin” by keeping one eye on Voisey’s rise and the other on Serracold’s possible weaknesses. Sir Charles Voisey, the traitorous head of the Inner Circle whose plan to overthrow the Crown ( The Whitechapel Conspiracy, 2000) Superintendent Thomas Pitt outwitted but could not checkmate, is back with another load of mischief, running for Parliament from the historically Liberal bastion of South Lambeth.
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