- The police continue their search for Mick and Tim O'Shea but Inspector Brackenreid is also out on his own looking for them. Murdoch finds someone who confirms that the O'Sheas killed Richard Dawkins but the man also suggests that the O'Sheas aren't working alone. Mrs. Cecily McKinnon, the harbor master, says she knows nothing of extortion on the docks but when pressed, points the finger at one of the merchants, Lionel Jeffries. When the O'Sheas are found dead, shot through the head, Brackenreid becomes the number one suspect. Meanwhile, the ladies who participated in the suffragette protest - including Drs. Ogden and Grace - are still in jail. In court, they find that Leslie Garland is one of the Crown attorneys prosecuting them. They get a bit of a boost when Clara Brett Martin, the first woman lawyer so recognized in the British Empire, offers to represent them.—garykmcd
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid refuses to abandon his private vindictive search for his abusers Mick and Tim O'Shea, who also murdered Dawkins, and rejoin the force, but the fiend brothers are gone, perhaps back to Ireland, and nobody talks: Murdoch must promise his new boss inspector Hamish Slorach to arrest him if caught at a crime. Crabtree proves most helpful, working out that they racketeered waterside businesses, probably orchestrated by a tycoon like Lionel Jeffries, but harbor master's widow Cecily McKinnon is actively linked, even before Thomas recalls her presence at his pommeling and is staged prime suspect for the brothers' own murder, while the female corpse proves part of a network of white slavers from Europe. Crabtree becomes fatherless Simon's sugar uncle as benefactor of his proud single mother Edna Brooks, a former friend.—KGF Vissers
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