Title: Avenging the dead
Description: Superintendent Henry Jarrett is under pressure from the Union Bank who are in the midst of a forgery scandal. Just as that inquiry gets under way, the murders begin. Each killing is claimed by a letter-writer calling himself the Scythe, who is in possession of the facts known only to the detectives.
Subjects: Henry Jarrett (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police, Serial murder investigation, History, Serial murders, fiction, Scotland, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Crime, fiction
Places: Scotland, Glasgow, Glasgow (Scotland)
Time periods: 19th century