The year is 1849 and Charles Watson is offered a job in Plymouth. Leaving his family and friends in Kent he makes his way, via London, to Devon by railway and mail coach.
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His new landlady has one of her rooms burgled and something valuable is stolen. When one of her lodgers mysteriously disappears, local tongues begin to wag.
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A local cholera outbreak kills twenty five people.
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A body is discovered in a barn, and Charles' landlady, al
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