Beyond The City. The Idyll of a Suburb

Beyond the City explores the relationships between the residents of three adjoining homes. The cast of characters includes a widowed doctor with two daughters, a retired admiral with a wife and son, and a feminist living with her nephew.

• Destiny brings these three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside.
• The desire for money and romance drive these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle-class lives.
• As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them.
• An outside rank pirate is linked somehow to one of the neighbors.
• Who could it be?
• In this work, Conan Doyle exhibits the practiced subtlety and complexity for which he has become so well known.