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A taut 1886 Victorian mystery: when wealthy wife Mrs. Edward Layton is found dead in her locked bedroom, circumstantial evidence points straight to her unhappy husband, who refuses to defend himself at trial. His young counsel Bainbridge takes on the hopeless case, untangling a web of family secrets, a cursed nine-of-hearts playing-card cipher, a pair of star-crossed lovers, and a desperate young man hidden in the suburbs — all to uncover the real truth behind the locked-room death.