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Rider Sandman can unfortunately buy nothing with his fading fame as a hero at Waterloo in London in 1817. He takes on a routine assignment: he is to investigate the background of a death sentence. A noble lady was raped and murdered, and the perpetrator was supposedly a young painter. However, Sandman quickly realizes that he would never lay a hand on a woman. So who was it? The deceased had an exotic past as an actress, with many admirers and even more enemies. Sandman follows the trail and eventually finds himself at the door of the Seraphim's Club. Gentlemen from the highest circles frequent this place. And what they do there is known to no one. A magnificent novel set in the London of the Empire era, thrilling, full of life, simply outstanding.