Mans Illegal Life — Keith Heller

After 27 years of nightly patrolling its seedy and menacing streets, George Man has seen all the horrors that 18th-century London has to offer. But even he is sickened when the emaciated corpse of Geoffrey Stannard is found lashed to a chair in an abandoned house. It isn¹t merely the shocking manner of Stannard¹s starvation that appalls Man; it is the ominous fact that the elderly recluse, a once-successful entrepreneur, was deliberately isolated in the very way that plague victims were sacrificed 50 years earlier. Is this a desperate attempt to stifle another epidemic? Or is it cold-blooded murder?