The Winter of Sir Alistair

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The fog of London in 1852 did not merely drift; it clung to the skin like a damp shroud, smelling of coal smoke and the slow rot of the Thames. For Sir Alistair Thorne, the fog had finally entered his lungs, thick and suffocating. He sat on a straw pallet in Newgate Prison, the stone walls weeping a salty, rhythmic moisture that mirrored the slow leak of his own dignity. Only three years ago,...

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