Man's Loving Family

October 1727. Thrown out of the Parish Watch after an altercation with a corrupt but powerful man, George Man is glad to be offered a job guarding tobacco merchant Abraham Sinclair¹s son, whose imminent murder has been mysteriously prophesied in an almanac. He is less glad when the prophecy is fulfilled before his very eyes in a tavern brawl. Worse still, it is Man¹s good friend, the volatile poet Richard Savage, who is found holding the bloody weapon. Certain of Savage¹s innocence, Man embarks on an investigation that leads him into the bosom of the deeply troubled Sinclair family ‹ and a veritable nest of vipers.