Publisher's Synopsis
Melbourne, 1875.
At the end of a beguiling honeymoon at Bondi, Inspector Michael Kent and his wife Deborah are set to return to Melbourne; but not before the Inspector becomes involve in local a suicide, and later a shipboard incident. Is it a murder? In Melbourne street strangling, arson and murder follow. How are these crimes to be dealt with? Kent has his own way of managing such matters!
