Bright, handsome, erudite, and charming, Lucian glides without apparent effort through Winchester, Cambridge, and The City. When his life begins to unravel following his arrest in Hong Kong, Clementine, a Cambridge contemporary, cannot resist the urge to rediscover the man with whom she was once obsessed.

A latter-day 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Wykehamist' explores the motivations behind a vicious murder, on a journey which meanders through the May balls and parties of Cambridge, to the glass towers and neon lights of London and Hong Kong.