The Tin Face Parade
October 1907, East London. A mask maker works painstakingly to rebuild injured faces out of painted copper alloy, until he is brutally murdered at his workbench. The police suspect a burglary gone wrong, but when a much more high-profile killing shocks the city just weeks later, one man is convinced the two crimes are connected. Somehow it falls to Harry Catcliffe, a dissolute young industrialist with a gift for being in the wrong place, to try and discover the truth.
The Porcelain Poet
Summer 1909. London.
Amid the sweat and oil of an East London steel factory, the Porcelain Poet scrawls his rhymes on toilet doors – witty, abusive and anonymous. Then comes the week that the graffiti stops abruptly, just as an unpopular shop steward is found face-down in the Thames. Across the city, other union men have been going missing too – but what’s happening to them and why?
Once again, it’s up to Harry Catcliffe, jaded industrialist and reluctant investigator, to try and get to the bottom of it. Aided by his unpredictable sidekick, ex-marine Jabez Potter, Harry’s hunt takes him from the squalid rookeries of Lambeth to the fragrant heather moors of rural Yorkshire.
