It is the late autumn of 1935. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini are starting to flex their muscles in more ways than one, setting Europe down a road that will eventually lead to the biggest war in history.

In London, King George V acts as the ceremonial monarch in charge of an empire on which the sun never sets, some of whose subjects are getting increasingly restive, particularly in India.

And in a town outside of that expanding metropolis, former Chicago detective turned private eye Millicent 'Georgia' Taylor is about to find herself on the strangest case in her career.