The Blood Doctor

The first Lord Nanther clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography. Having built a name for himself as Queen Victoria's favoured physician - expert on blood diseases - he set about recording the details of this life. When the present Lord Nanther begins to research the life of his great-grandfather, he suspects these old records conceal more than they reveal. As Martin Nanther begins to catch glimpses of 'some monstrous, quite appalling things' in the blood doctor's past, so he realises Henry died a guilty man - carrying a horrific secret to the grave