A full-blooded romantic thriller.
'I have often wanted to know what it was he did that was so entirely wicked,' she said. It is a mystery, and I think very romantic.'
'There is no mystery,' said Shield,'nor is it in the least romantic. Ludovic was a wild young man who crowned a series of follies with murder.
A full blooded romance of the eighteenth century, this exciting adventure story of the tracking-down of a master criminal is told with all the verve and suspense of a modern detective story.