Amazon.com description: Product Description: 'Mr Alexander works in a vigorous style that captures with gusto the lusty spirit of the era.' - NEW YORK TIMES 'Lively prose and vivid period feel.' - MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS Even in Grub Street, home to all manner of literary skulduggery, nothing could prepare its denizens for the bloody end of aspiring publisher Ezekiel Crabb, his wife, two sons, and two apprentices - all savagely dispatched, supposedly, by a crazed poet. The blind Magistrate of the Bow Street Court, Sir John Fielding, is somewhat perplexed. He discovers that the accused is the proud owner of three separate identities. And what is to be made of the strange religious sect who have run amok in Covent Garden, complicating the case still further?