Scotland Yard's Richard Jury is drawn into the investigation of a secretive, wealthy bachelor's murder and finds himself coping with a forbidding head detective and too many false leads.

Twelve-year-old Emma Graham, awakened to a sense of her own danger, pursues the truth about the suspicious drowning of another twelve-year-old near the Hotel Paradise, a once-fashionable resort that belongs to Emma's family.

"In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa. Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand--a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied...