The city of William Blake and Jack the Ripper; the Bow Street Runners and The Krays; Bedlam and Newgate; the Pistols and the Clash - London is the ancient capital of crime. This is an A-Z of what lies beneath the official city maps. It takes you on a tour from the mythic East End; to the bohemian West.
Christina Devenish, feminist and Theosophist, is running a birth control clinic. When it is torched by Hindu extremists, and Christina's Indian helper is killed, she receives an invitation from her father, Colonel Devenish, to visit him in Bhutan. This final act is played out in Calcutta, in the midst of a demonstration for independence.