Publisher's Synopsis
A Yorkshire mill town in the closing years of the nineteenth century. A place of poverty and pollution, where political tensions are rising against the backdrop of the Boer War. A local landowner has died in mysterious circumstances. Who stands to gain? His brother perhaps, keen to sell land to a railway company seeking a foothold in the town. Detective Sergeant Rino Rossi of the borough CID needs to tread carefully in order to discover what
has happened.
