Jeremy Oakshott, Fellow of Jerusalem Hall and an authority on the Crusades, is content with life until renowned archaeolo­gist Mrs Lestrange urges him to join her expedition to Syria. His wealthy uncle, Ambrose Littlemore, refuses to help him, and is murdered soon afterwards. Detective Inspector Antrobus has already investigated the savage murder of one of Oakeshott's old friends, but the scholar's alibis are completely water-tight. Assisted by his doctor friend, Sophia Jex-Blake, Antrobus looks further afield, visiting two criminal lunatic asylums, a remote nunnery, and a quiet country village, where at last they uncover the truth about five savage murders, and the identity of their perpetrator.

A lone warrior, cast out from his tribe, comes to the Kings’ valley—and decides he wants Zach’s pregnant wife for himself!

A buffalo hunt turns deadly when a group out to count coup decide the next scalps they want for their belts are Evelyn King’s and her friends’.

Evelyn King and Dega are hoping for a quiet picnic in an unexplored valley paradise, but their plans are waylaid by a cunning and vicious mountain lion looking for a feast of its own.

1894, Sir Montague Fowler, warden of St Michael's College, Oxford, dies from apparent natural causes. Before long vicious rumours begin to circulate about the actual cause of his death, and an autopsy reveals that Sir Montague's body was full of the deadly poison mercuric chloride. Detective Antrobus of the Oxford city police is summoned to investigate. Who would benefit most from the warden's death? His three children are all in desperate need of money and each are embroiled in their own scandal: his son John is a secret gambler with enormous debts, daughter Frances has fallen into the clutches of a blackmailer, and son Timothy had stood by and watched his rival in love drown. Antrobus's list of suspects grows as it seems everyone had something to gain from the death. Aided by pioneer physician, Sophia Jex-Blake, the detective sets about unravelling the truth behind this Oxford tragedy.

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