The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal

A story too secret, too terrifying—and too shockingly intimate—for Victorian eyes.

A note to the Editor

Dear Henry,

I have been Simon Feximal’s companion, assistant and chronicler for twenty years now, and during that time my Casebooks of Feximal the Ghost-Hunter have spread the reputation of this most accomplished of ghost-hunters far and wide.

You have asked me often for the tale of our first meeting, and how my association with Feximal came about. I have always declined, because it is a story too private to be truthfully recounted, and a memory too precious to be falsified. But none knows better than I that stories must be told.

So here is it, Henry, a full and accurate account of how I met Simon Feximal, which I shall leave with my solicitor to pass to you after my death.

I dare say it may not be quite what you expect.

Robert Caldwell
September 1914

• Spectred Isle (Green Men Book 1)
• Jackdaw (A Charm of Magpies World)
• Rag and Bone (A Charm of Magpies World)
• A Queer Trade (A Charm of Magpies World)
• Think of England
• Wanted, a Gentleman
• Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies Book 3)
• An Unnatural Vice (Sins of the Cities Book 2)
• An Unsuitable Heir (Sins of the Cities Book 3)
• An Unseen Attraction (Sins of the Cities Book 1)