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In modern-day London, a descendant of the legendary founder of Communism is murdered, and two Scotland Yard sleuths are on the case. A notorious curmudgeon, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock has his doubts about Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla, a young neophyte to the legendary Scotland Yard, especially since her first case could have such daunting implications. Meredith Winterbottom, a great-granddaughter of Karl Marx and a longtime resident of Jerusalem Lane�a Dickensian section of London inhabited by Eastern European immigrants�is found dead in her apartment. Along with her two sisters and other Lane residents, she�d been seeing red over plans to gentrify their neighborhood. The unofficial suspect, for now, is some money-hungry developer. But when a second Marx sister is murdered, Brock and Kolla fear that something even more sinister is unfolding. As they delve into the Lane�s eccentric melting pot, they discover revealing and previously unseen letters from Marx, a possible fourth volume of Das Kapital, a long list of suspects ranging from Meredith�s shady son to a Princeton professor to a Polish veteran of World War II�and a devious plot to make certain Kathy Kolla�s first case is her last. �Intelligently devised and subtly plotted� (Dallas Morning News), this first book in the popular series was shortlisted for a Crime Writers Association award for Best First Mystery, and was hailed by the Providence Sunday Journal as a �beautifully crafted�stunning debut.�