1889. The Scottish Play is coming home. But before the darling couple of London theatre, Henry Irving & Ellen Terry, take their acclaimed Macbeth to the Edinburgh stage terror treads the boards. A grisly message found smeared across the cobbles in blood, foretelling someone\"s demise....

New Year\"s Day, 1889. In Edinburgh\"s lunatic asylum, a patient escapes as a nurse lays dying. Leading the manhunt are legendary local Detective \"Nine-Nails\" McGray and Londoner-in-exile Inspector Ian Frey. Before the murder, the suspect was heard in whispered conversation with a fellow patient - a girl who had been mute for years....

Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso\"s maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room - and no way in or out - the case makes no sense....