What then of the mysterious case of Isabella Rose, the infantile orphan adopted into the grand Polstar Manor estate, who-in some fantastical, complicated way-brings forth the best, the brightest, and the most evil elements of fashionable London society in the early 1900's? It is the quest for the Polstar Emerald which becomes the vortex the exhibition of the human condition presented through Isabella's adoptive parents, a licentious henchman, the ingenious mind of the underworld, and the ever relentless efforts of Scotland Yard that sees this story through its most curious and unbelievable journey.
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