The Raven on the Dome
The fog did not roll off the Thames so much as rise from it, like breath from a dying man's mouth. It clung to the streets of Whitechapel in thick yellow sheets, turning gaslights into halos and shadows into shapes that moved when they should not have moved. Arthur Penhaligon knew shadows. At twenty-four, he had spent three years holding lamps in the hospital morgue while the coroner cut open...
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