The Blood Doctor – Barbara Vine

The First Lord Nanther clearly hoped to be the subject of an admiring posthumous biography. Having built a name for himself as Queen Victoria’s favored physician expert on blood diseases and particularly the royal disease of hemophilia he fastidiously set about recording the details of his eminent life, carefully cataloguing every significant letter, diary and medical essay that he’d written. But when the present Lord Nanther begins to research the life of his great-grandfather, he soon realizes there is little of interest in his ancestor’s dry-as-dust account. Indeed, he begins to suspect that these old records conceal more than they reveal….