"Hieronymus Brock, the Shoreditch Gorger, killed and devoured four people before he was caught. He confessed and was, predictably, sentenced to death and hanged. And, according to my friend, consulting detective Monette LeRoi, it was first then that this case became noteworthy." From "The Reminiscences of Tiffany Teckel, M.D.", published intermittently between 1892 and 1914. It's a world where some beasts think and talk like in a fable... Where humanity is only a fable... and Queen Victoria of England is a chicken... Two spinsters sharing an apartment on Barker Street fight crime.