Murder of Augustus Darcy

That which is currently known about Augustus Samuel Darcy is as follows:

His father is a solicitor and he was born in Thetford in November, 1897 and has a sister who is three years his junior. He went to school in Ely where he met Amery Greville.

He served in the Great War (meeting Greville on the Vimy Ridge) and afterwards graduated in History from the University of Oxford before working as a freelance journalist in London.

Darcy was a magician and member of an occult organisation known only as The Brotherhood. In 1933 they commissioned him to write a guide for members visiting the capital. It appears that he discovered a dark organisation in London's occult underbelly and it is possible he became involved with a Magical War. A few months later he was dead.

The death of Augustus Darcy

Reports of his death seem confused as the dust-jacket copy suggests no cause of death was established but Greville's introduction states that a 'local newspaper' had a short piece about his drowning in the Thames.