The Master Mummer

Arnold Greatson fills his desk with virgin manuscript paper, unable to write another word of the lightweight society stories that have made his name. He craves something real, something that matters. He finds it on a train platform: a terrified young girl named Isobel de Sorrens, and the composed stranger who claims to be her guardian. Something is deeply wrong. Arnold can feel it. He intervenes, and everything changes. What begins as a writer's quest for authentic material becomes a descent into mystery, danger, and moral consequence. Oppenheim, the Edwardian master of intrigue, weaves a tale about the cost of looking too closely at life, and the transformation that comes when a passive observer becomes a participant in someone else's drama. The Master Mummer asks what happens when we stop observing the world from a safe distance and actually step into it.