After Dark

Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by Marianne North, Rembrandt and John Atkinson Grimshaw. A travelling portrait-painter is ordered to rest his failing eyes, and to keep the household afloat his wife Leah writes down the stories his sitters told him: a gambling-house bed in Paris that murders its sleeper, a lawyer's recovery of a stolen letter, a governess's tale of the French Terr...