When the bodies of a number of babies are found scattered around Islington the volatile Detective Sergeant Best is sent undercover to lodge next door to a suspected baby farm. He shadows an alleged 'child dropper' onto a Thames pleasure steamer & finds himself caught up in Britain's worst civilian tragedy
- the 1878 sinking of the Princess Alice
- a ghastly experience which will haunt Best forever. His determination to avenge the death of a young pregnant girl he had befriended & save the life of another becomes a crusade. Meanwhile his beloved Helen returns from Paris with the promise of a decision as to their future. Dead Born is the exciting sequel to Best's adventure's in Dead Image & is again based on historical fact.