The Tiger in the Smoke

Haunted by the wartime loss of her husband, Meg Faraday tentatively steps toward a new future with her fiancé, Geoffrey Levett. But her fragile peace shatters when a chilling photograph arrives, depicting her supposedly dead husband, alive and staring from a current London street. Plunged into a waking nightmare, Meg seeks the aid of the astute detective Albert Campion and his intrepid wife, Amanda. As Campion meticulously peels back layers of deceit, he uncovers a terrifying connection to an escaped convict known only as 'The Tiger' Dido, a ruthless killer leaving a trail of bodies across a fog-bound London. With Geoffrey mysteriously vanished and the police frantically searching for a murderer whose motives are intimately linked to Meg's past, Campion must navigate a treacherous labyrinth of wartime secrets, psychological tension, and cold-blooded ambition. The dense, pea-souper fog itself becomes a menacing character, mirroring the moral ambiguity and psychological darkness that threatens to consume Meg and everyone around her, before The Tiger strikes again.