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Alexander McCall Smith brings his peerless wit to this second entry featuring a motley collection of residents in London's Pimlico neighborhood. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his experiences hanging out with the Abominable Snowman. Terence Moongrove's residence has become the target of New Age cosmologists. And pint-sized terrier Freddie de la Hay is being recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring.

Psychologist Tony Hill and Detective Carol Jordan's investigation of a teenage girl's murder leads them to an Internet predator.

Genealogist Nigel Barnes is recruited by Scotland Yard to investigate a group of puzzling, vicious murders. The victims all bear a message carved into their bodies that appears to refer to a series of 19th-century stabbings for which the killer may have been innocent.

Oscar-winning actress Paige Carson sashays off to London to try her hand at Shakespeare and prove she deserves more than bimbo roles. But stage acting isn't what the pampered star expected, and neither is her snooty landlord Ed. Still, an unlikely romance begins to blossom.

The eminent Sir Lockwood Hamilton, a Member of Parlaiment, is murdered and his body is found on Westminster Bridge. Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte are just beginning to investigate when yet another member of Parlaiment is murdered and discovered on the same bridge. The Pitts find one connection between the men--they both voted against female suffrage. Before another politician is killed, the Pitts must find the murderer among an assortment of angry suffragates, anarchists, and scoundrels.

In Rutland Place, a lost locket becomes the key to deadly secrets that lurk behind the opulent facade of one of London's most exclusive neighborhoods.

The dead body of a peer of the realm sitting upright in an empty hansom cab was an odd sight indeed. He had been decently buried once before, Inspector Pitt knew. There was something terribly amiss. Despite a doctor's claims of death by natural causes, Pitt insisted on serious digging to unearth the truth -- even if it killed him.

Describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural evolution.

Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England.

Late one night, a blazing inferno destroys the home of a well-to-do English doctor. Tragically, the man's wife perishes in the flames. Arson is obviously the crime, but after digging around, Inspector Pitt isn't sure who could have set the fire. Enlisting the aid of his wife Charlotte, Thomas searches the dank London streets for a killer, puzzled by the question of whether the true target was the doctor's wife, or the doctor himself.