The best inspector of the London police Thomas Pitt finally got the long-awaited promotion became super-intendant But he did not have much time to enjoy the smile of Fortune .. For such a complicated and scandalous case fell on the head of the new chief of the Bow Street precinct that, without revealing it, Thomas risked losing everything. In the heart of London, in Hyde Park, a body was found ... without a head. The killed - Captain of Her Majesty's Navy Winthrop - was not seen in anything reprehensible, and he had no enemies. The case was immediately taken under the highest control, and Pitt fully felt what hard pressure from above was. And in the society meanwhile there were terrible rumors about the Executioner from Hyde Park - especially after another decapitated corpse was found almost at the same place.