London, 1923. One bitter winter’s night, George Lassiter finds himself wandering the streets with no place to go. Delirious and down on his luck, he breaks into the kitchen of a smart townhouse in search of food. Appetite sated, he falls into a feverish doze . . . then wakes, in time to witness the murder of a beautiful young woman .One minute, she’s wrapped in her lover’s arms. The next, she’s lying dead at his feet.Horrified, George races to the police. But when they search the house minutes later, they find nothing. The corpse has vanished, as if by magic .The next day, George wakes in a hospital bed, convinced it was all just a fever dream. His old friend Jack is inclined to agree. Until George mentions the princely inheritance that he’s just been cheated out of.Could one sleight of hand be connected to the other?Jack realizes that all the threads in this tangled web lead back to George’s mysterious townhouse.What deadly secrets hide behind its doors?