House of the White Shadows

A defense attorney stands in court, defending a man he knows is guilty. The trial has already begun. He cannot unhear the confession, cannot unknow what he knows. Yet he continues, trapped between professional duty and moral complicity. As his friends, who have trusted him and his family for years, begin to suspect he may have known the truth before the trial started, the shadows deepen. Someone else knows too, and in Victorian London, knowledge is currency. The house of the title looms over everything: a place where family history sleeps in the walls, where white shadows move in ways that defy explanation, where the past refuses to stay buried. Farjeon, a master of Victorian sensation fiction, weaves the attorney's personal history, the mystery of the house, and the courtroom drama into a single taut narrative about what happens when the law and conscience diverge. The question is not just who committed the crime, but whether the man paid to defend him can live with himself.