In a London stunned by the sensational crimes of a madman named Jack the Ripper, a tragic fire in the peaceful suburb of Highgate goes unremarked. But the blaze was set by an arsonist, and an innocent woman has died in it: Clemency Shaw, the wife of a prominent doctor. And it is unclear whether she or Dr. Shaw was the intended victim, or whether the doctor himself may have set the blaze in order to inherit his wife's large fortune. Baffled by the...