Chandler and Miles attend the launch of Buchan’s book on murders in Whitechapel where they are baffled by cryptic remarks made by an eccentric old lady Louise Iver. At the same time elderly vagrant Alexander Zukanov is lured to a house with strange markings on the wall where he is pressed to death, giving the name Dorothy Cade to his killer before he dies. Miles and Chandler visit Zukanov’s doss-house and learn that the other occupants were frightened of him and regarded him as a warlock. Buchan confirms that he was a member of the Bulgarian secret service and Stella Knight from MI6 names him as having been an interrogator of former British spy Crispin Wingfield. Wingfield is questioned but released though he tells the police that the manner of Zukanov’s death was a punishment for witches in the sixteenth century. Meanwhile Dorothy Cade, living with her sister Cecilia, is also murdered, burnt at the stake like a medieval witch很喜欢那种娓娓道来的道道方式。一场葬礼，贯串了一个家尘封多年的旧事，无关爱恨，无关对错，各自找觅着属于自己的糊口方式。与其道是彼此和解，不如道是本谅自己，对心结的开怀与释然。良久没看到缓若瑄了，有些推翻了印象中的样子，或许是脚色的理由吧。