Blue Billy's Rogue Lexicon

Two men offer two very different futures in this tale of a young man's search for himself after a spectacular fall.

William Dempsey rose from a life of thieving and prostitution to be the personal plaything of the Marquess of Argyll. Then a betrayal sees him returned to the rough streets of London without patronage, his West End apartment, or a place among the ton.

So on a stormy night, he arrives at a house in Southwark - Marathon Moll's in the Mint - the bawdyhouse he worked in during his ...