Its Latin motto, like cures like, hints at the confusions to come. Moving between London ballrooms and the haunts of thieves, Whyte-Melville brings together the proud Miss Bruce and the mysterious Nina, Tom Ryfe, the burglar Gentleman Jim, the good-natured Dick Stanmore and a regiment of officers, in a tale of lost identity and missing persons.
An entertaining Victorian society novel with a criminal underside, by the master of the hunting novel. Download the free EPUB.