The Yard

Victorian London is a cesspool of crime' and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives to investigate thousands of murders every month. Created after the failure to capture Jack the Ripper' the "Murder Squad" suffers rampant public contempt. But no one anticipated the murder of one of their own. When Walter Day' the squad's newest hire' is assigned the case' he finds a strange ally in the Yard's first forensic pathologist' Dr. Bernard Kingsley.