When Marina discovers a boy called William with a head of tentacles and crab claws for hands, she resolves to help him unravel the mystery of his past. But danger lurks among the fishmongers of the seaside town of Merlington ...
This is a vintage whodunit, first in the author's Judge's Tales series, a grisly murder in Edwardian London as social revolution and psychiatry posed new questions for the Law and for the first time the Media were co-opted to run a killer to ground. The author draws on his own experience as a Judge at the Old Bailey.
