The Haunted Martyr

England in the chilly winter of 1902 is captive to a new craze: Mediums and psychics are springing up like toadstools after a rainstorm, and the public is rushing to consult them, thirsty for intimations of the Great Beyond. It's no surprise that a man like Denton has his doubts: An American Yankee in King Edward's city, he is a walking representative of the "Show Me" state.

Nevertheless, Denton agreed to write a book about ghosts and hauntings, and has taken himself to Italy to do it. Napoli may be bella, but it offers Denton only boredom and frustration, until a dead body shows up to make life interesting. As he tries to divine the killer's identity, the cold hard clues give him a new angle on his new spiritualist friends.