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Avenging the dead

1863. Superintendent Henry Jarrett, chief of the detective department at Glasgow Central, is under pressure from the Union Bank who are in the midst of a forgery scandal ... but just as that investigation gets under way, the murders begin. Although there is no particular modus operandi, each killing is claimed by a letterwriter calling himself the Scythe. This mysterious character paints himself as a righter of wrongs and is seemingly in possession of facts known only to the detectives. But what troubles Jarrett most - apart from the fact that the lady in his life seems to be taking too great an in.

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