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The year is 1820 and England has fought its last victorious battle resistant to the French. Rider Sandman, a hero of Waterloo, has finally delivered to London to wed his young bride. But instead of having the ability to settle down to his popularity and glory, he confirms himself penniless in a country where unemployment and social unrest are raging high, and where men - innocent or guilty - are hung for the merest of crimes. Thus, when the Home Secretary offers him employment as private investigator - to re-open the case of a death-row applicant accused of murder - Sandman quickly accepts, all the for the money as for an opportunity to see justice being done in a country gone to ruins. Soon, however, he is up to his elbows in grisly a murder story that continues thickening as Sandman makes his way through gentleman's golf clubs and shady taverns, aristocratic mansions and stylish painters studios, unerringly determined to rescue the innocent son from the rope. But someone doesn't want the reality revealed...
