Bookseller John Holdsworth has fallen on hard times, his home, family and business swept away in a matter of months. Then he receives a proposition - travel from London to Jerusalem college Cambridge as Lady Oldershaw's ambassador to lay a ghost that has turned the late Bishop of Oldershaw's heir from a strapping young buck to a gibbering idiot. Holdsworth takes on the job of getting young Mr Oldershaw out of the mental institution the college have placed him into, but there are many interests at work in Jerusalem and most of them would prefer the young man remain mad.
Taylor brings late eighteenth century Cambridge to life and populates it with fellows, masters, undergraduates, sizars, gyps and civilians with blackmail on their minds.
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