Julius Courtney is the most striking member of London’s Hyacinth Club, a Piccadilly gathering of artists, scientists and admirers. Then a young lady trained as a nurse at St Thomas’s is found drained and senseless, and the doctor Lefevre begins to suspect that Courtney’s mysterious vigour has a terrible source.
An 1890 cousin of Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula, mixing club life, medicine and an uncanny scientific premise. Download the free EPUB.