Penguin, Toronto, 1998, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-14026867-7.  MMPB, 212 pages.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, light reading creases.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘It is 1879, in Edinburgh, and it appears that a serious miscarriage of justice is about to take place.  A man has been tried, convicted and sentenced to hang for the murder of a dazzling opera star and her lover, but the convicted man’s brother is convinced of his innocence.  He pleads with Dr. Bell, a celebrated professor of anatomy with keen powers of deduction, to try to uncover the truth.  Dr. Bell agrees and enlists the help of his young student, Arthur Conan Doyle, who is deciding between a career in medicine and the writer’s life.’ (from rear wrap)