Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he's seen this before. Last night, in a drug addled haze, he stumbled across a corpse with the same ritualistic injuries. It seems like there's a deranged killer on the loose. Unfortunately...

The British Museum watch collection spans 500 years, and includes examples ranging from 16th-century early stackfreed watches made in south Germany to decorative watches of the 17th century, through to watches from the modern age. This book tells the story of the watch through major examples in the collection.