philosophy teachers

Plodding police inspector Carus Groves teams up with retired professor Thomas McKnight and his gravedigger assistant to investigate when a series of grisly murders strikes Edinburgh in the 1880s, shortly after the return of Evelyn Todd, a young woman who had been expelled from the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls years earlier for weaving fantastic stories about a cheerful lamplighter.

Evan Birch's steady life as a husband, father, and professor of philosophy is ruined when he is wrongfully accused of kidnapping a local high school cheerleader.