Decimus Webb Books in Order

A young woman is found strangled in a carriage on London's new Metropolitan railway. Inspector Decimus Webb follows the case into slums and a refuge for women, where a servant's hidden past complicates the search for her killer.

A series of murders draws Inspector Decimus Webb into Victorian London's dance halls and mourning trade. Suspecting links to a cemetery theft and an old suicide, he investigates a respectable businessman before another tragedy occurs.

A stranger cuts locks of young women's hair in London's Cremorne Gardens, initially seeming merely eccentric. When obsession turns to murder, Inspector Decimus Webb faces mounting pressure to catch the culprit and protect a young debutante.