With top-hat and cane in hand Scotland Yard's DI Stamford Hawksmoor shadows the murky
backstreets of London on the hunt for a sadistic serial killer. In the dying days of the
French occupation of Britain through gaslit cobbled streets and squalid alleyways stalks the
great eagle Detective Stamford Hawksmoor in search of the homicidal manic whose killing spree
claims dozens of seemingly unconnected victims from random murders to targeted political
assassinations. The deeper he delves the more he puts himself in mortal danger pitting
himself against unknown antagonists whilst under the scrutiny of the feared anti-terrorist
squad and the more he is forced to resort to working outside the law. A prequel to Talbot's
pioneering Grandville series The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor is also an intriguing
labyrinthine stand-alone mystery graphic novel set in a world of hansom cabs and pea-souper
fogs where explosive violence can erupt at any second - and does!
