Step back into the smog-filled streets of late 1850s London with a brilliant forensic scientist and his loyal assistant. This series plunges you into intricate mysteries where sharp intellect and scientific observation unravel the darkest secrets of Victorian society. Follow their compelling investigations as they bring logic and deduction to bear on crimes that baffle Scotland Yard. It's a thrilling journey into the dawn of forensic science.
'London, 1856. The specimen-collection craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the known world in unimaginable ways. When the glamorous Lady Bessingham is found murdered in her bedroom, surrounded by her vast collection of fossils, Professor Adolphus Hatton and his morgue assistant Albert Roumande are called in to examine the crime scene - and the body.' - cover.
London 1858. Forensic scientist Adolphus Hatton and his trusty assistant Albert Roumande have a morgue full of cholera victims to attend to. But alongside the cholera outbreak, London is also home to a growing unrest. When a leading politician of the Irish Unionist movement is murdered, Scotland Yard calls on Hatton and Roumande for help.