Publisher's Synopsis
Adam Quince's business is death. A writer of obituaries, his own life of tedium is measured out by the index cards of the dead and dying which he monitors in his basement office 'morgue'. But Quince finds his passion for life reignited when he meets the beautiful actress Nada Templeton and becomes engaged in a tug-of-war with her protector, the enigmatic and sinister John Purefoy. Obsessed with death, Purefoy is 'The Raker', named after the men charged cleaning the streets during the Plague of 1665.
