This Suspenseful miurder mystery presents a sordid side of London society, where respectable young women are gruesomely garroted in the dead of night. Charlotte Ellison comes from a privileged background. Inspector Pitt is a headstrong young man not afraid to cross the social spectrum in his investigations. Their paths cross when a murder victim is part of the Ellison's social circle, yet the thought of anything happening between them, other than Charlotte forcing her ideas on him during his ongoing inquiries, is surely impossible.

Dark secrets are slowly revealed in this atmospheric tale of deception and murder. Lucy Graham, a beuty with a mysterious background, is recently married to Sir Michael Audley. Michael's nephew Robert is instantly attracted to the glamourous and amoral new brid, but begins to nurse suspicions that impicate Lucy in the disappearance of his old school friend George Talboys, back from Australia in search of his lost wife and child. Only Lucy, now reveling in the lucury attained by marriage to a wealthy man knows the truth.

The year is 1810. Britain is at war with France and a mad king, George III, is at the helm. While Ross Poldark is working in London as a member of Parliament, the family feud with the Warleggans still rages, threatening the Poldarks' very existence. Back in Cornwall, Ross's wife Demelza is alone with th etwo children. Jeremy is helping her is the truggle to keep the tin mine going, and Clowance is torn between the passion she feels for a mysterious stranger and the attentions of a young aristocrat.

In Leaving his regiment, handsom cavalry lieutenant Harry Feversham dishonors himself, his regiment and his fiancee. In order to retrieve his dignity, self respect and the love of his life, Harry must first of all travel in disguise to the Sudan uprising. To redeem himself and get back all he desires, he must commit fourt great acts of heroism, in so doing, returning the "four feathers."