Jack Parlabane has a perfectly good hangover to be getting on with before he finds the corpse of Ponsonby - scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan. But his... » 

Jack Parlabane has a perfectly good hangover to be getting on with before he finds the corpse of Ponsonby - scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan. But his instincts as an investigative journalist (morally ambiguous or not), commit him to the case with an unusual tenacity. «