内容简介：
Anastasia Ashby de la Zouch, Baroness Penge, Countess of Clapham and former mistress to Charles II, has fallen on hard times. Forced to turn to journalism, the Countess and her maidservant gather salacious titbits for a scandal sheet. But when a mysterious woman hires them to follow her husband, Beau, their pursuit leads them to playhouses and lecture halls, only to end abruptly in a Covent Garden churchyard. The pair find themselves implicated in murder and to establish the identity of the real killer they must penetrate the mysteries of alchemy.