Edinburgh Prescription

When Dr Isobel Grant summons Eleanor Hartwell to Edinburgh, the physician expects a discreet consultation—not to find her name attached to a prescription she never wrote. The document has been blamed for the death of Thomas Bell, treasurer of the Edinburgh Seamen's Relief Fund, whose final audit threatened to expose missing donations. With Julian Reed at her side, Eleanor examines what medicine can—and cannot—prove. Julian follows the money through altered accounts, vanished instalments and a suspect's carefully constructed alibi. Their investigation leads from a busy dispensary to charitable offices and railway timetables, where a forged identity begins to reveal a calculated fraud. Competent Edinburgh police take responsibility for the case as documentary evidence, witness accounts and financial discrepancies converge. Eleanor must defend her professional reputation without claiming certainty the medical record cannot support, while Julian must resist the temptation to publish before the facts are ready. Their disagreement tests an established love founded on trust, candour and mutual independence. Set in Edwardian Edinburgh and grounded in the world of maritime charity, The Edinburgh Prescription is a fair-play historical mystery of forged medicine, missing money and quietly deepening romance.