They go out again so Jackaby can send a telegram, and Abigail meets a woman without a home, and a friend of Jackaby’s, named Hatun. Jackaby returns home with a stolen map the dead man was using, and they consider its possible meanings. Abigail returns to Jackaby’s house, exploring its oddities and feeling an unseen presence. Meanwhile, Jackaby breaks back into the apartment to look for more clues.

Swift is pressuring Marlowe to catch the killer. Jackaby claims she is a banshee predicting Henderson’s impending death.Īs Jackaby and Abigail leave, Abigail sees the police commissioner Swift arrive, a pompous man with metal braces on his legs. Morrigan, who is ill with silent screams. At the next apartment, they meet a fiery Irish woman and her elderly relative, Mrs. Jackaby loans him a special tuning fork to alleviate his distress. Henderson, who claims to be hearing unbearable screams that no one else can hear. Jackaby notes that although the dead man is covered in blood, much of the blood seems to be missing. Among the police officers are Chief Inspector Marlowe and a young man named Charlie Cane, to whom Abigail is immediately attracted. He brings her to a crime scene where a journalist has been murdered in his apartment building. Jackaby has the gift of second sight, allowing him to see the supernatural world. After responding to an advertisement, she comes into the employ of a paranormal investigator named R. She is searching for adventure-and a job. In 1892, a young Englishwoman named Abigail Rook arrives in the American town of New Fiddleham.