London, 1929. By day, Selby Bigge counts ledgers as a weary bank clerk. By night, he slips into the city’s queer underworld, chasing fleeting connections while guarding dangerous secrets. The law has no mercy for men like him, and one careless move could mean ruin.
When Selby befriends Patrick Duker, heir to a banking fortune, his world tilts. Suddenly he’s dining at The Ritz and mingling at glittering parties in a Hampstead Heath mansion. But wealth offers no escape from scandal. Sir Lionel Duker faces attacks in the press, his young wife is dogged by gossip, and tensions simmer in every corner of the house.
Then a body is discovered in the billiards room. Everyone has a motive, and Selby must solve the crime without exposing himself.
