“Soul to God, life to the Sovereign, heart to the Lady, honor to no one,” is an ancient aristocratic motto at the heart of a gripping narrative in the detective genre. The main character, a nobleman-lawyer, overcomes the mystical temptations of the Art Nouveau century on his way, bloody occult rituals, metamorphoses of body and soul. Balancing on the brink of Good and Evil in a distraught metropolitan society, he breaks out of the tragic dead end of life to the Divine Light of the only, eternal Love.