The Murder of Thomas Cardwell (Casebook of Barnaby Adair #11)

J ordan Draper’s life revolved around figures; numbers were life blood to him.

As the third son of a provincial man-of-business, he’d been exposed to the calculus of various types of enterprises from an early age.

Consequently, it had surprised no one when, after completing grammar school, he’d taken to the business of accounts and estate management like a duck to water.

Then, utterly unexpectedly, for excellent and, indeed, commendable reasons, a scion of his father’s premier client family, the Delbraiths, who held the dukedom of Ridgware, elected to leave behind his life of dissolute comfort to become, of all things, London’s gambling king.