Book summary

Superintendent Thomas Pitt investigates the murder of London's most renowned social photographer in this installment in Anne Perry's Victoriana mystery series. Scandal erupts when word gets out that Delbert Cathcart's body was discovered in a punt on the Thames, laid out in a green velvet dress reminiscent of Millais' rendering of Ophelia. And that's just the beginning. A presumably unrelated scandal involving Grandmama Mariah Ellison takes Pitt into controversial territory where women's liberation, sexual freedom, divorce laws, and artistic censorship reside.