Henry Carter Hull

Superintendent Thomas Pitt, investigating the discovery of a dead man found drifting in the Thames, must walk a narrow line between hunting down the guilty and protecting the innocent when his search for answers leads him deep into Victorian London's bohemia.

Thomas Pitt, commander of the Bow Street police station in Victorian England, is drawn into the controversy over the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution when he sets out to investigate the death of feminist and Darwin devotee Unity Bellwood.