The House of Sight and Shadow: A Novel - Tapa dura

In early eighteenth-century London, two doctors--Sir Edmund Calcraft, a notorious anatomist, and his ambitious student, Joseph Bendix--play a dangerous game with the criminal underworld as they pursue their medical research.

ill recovering from the ravages of plague and fire, two doctors crisscross the boundaries of morality. It is a challenge that leads Sir Edmund Calcraft, an eminent and notorious anatomist, and Joseph Bendix, his ambitious young student, into playing a dark game with the growing criminal underworld. At the heart of the book lies a haunting love story that both drives and threatens to destroy their quest.

In gallows and madhouses, in anatomical laboratories and a “Frost Fair” set on the frozen Thames, the two men engage in a competition involving both head and heart. Mixing history, myth, medicine, and fiction, The House of Sight and Shadow is a compelling tale about the fallibility of both love and reason.