There's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimes—until wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair: General Well'ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane, the leaders of a gang of young Jewish pickpockets.

In this first volume of the Jewish Regency Mystery Series, a young Jewish physician is accused of poisoning his wealthy patient. After more outbreaks of the mysterious ailment occur, an increasingly hysterical Jewish community turns to Mr. Melamed to investigate the case. But there are too few clues and too little time in this humorous mystery story featuring British detectives who are definitely in a class of their own.