Plenty of high dudgeon and comic derring-do in Victorian London

The year is 1893 and young Cambridge divinity student Gideon Bliss has arrived in London in search of his uncle, whom he appears to have lost. Gideon has also lost both his parents, although that was some years earlier, but such a predicament might well tempt a reviewer to desecrate poor Oscar Wilde's line: to lose two parents is unfortunate but to lose an uncle too looks like carelessness.