A Drain of Pale

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A stranger, a mystery, our Mr. Strake ...
Katherine Dutton trains to be a nurse at the London Hospital, working the night shift. Thom Strake, brought in after a collision with an omnibus, languishes in bed with a broken leg, and waits for her every night.

About Martin Agius

Reclusive writer born in London, sometimes sighted in San Francisco gazing longingly at the doors of the old Plush Room on Sutter Street.

A Drain of Pale is an original Victorian Sensation novel in weekly installments.
Start at episode One.

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