The iron ledger lay heavy in Edgar Moriarty's hands, its leather cover cracked like the faces of the men who had owned it before him.
The attic of Blackmoor Hall smelled of damp wool and old paper. Below, the gas lamps of London flickered through the fog, casting long shadows across the floorboards. Edgar was twenty-three, orphaned, with nothing but a name that belonged to no one and a mind that refused to forget. He opened the ledger to the first page. In faded ink, the old steward Harold Blackwood had written: Observation...
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