Zack Lowe

The son of a schoolmaster and teacher, Zack has managed to disappoint both of his parents by insisting upon entering the field of journalism since he was old enough to read the crime pages. His position at the London Review is his first in the field, and has turned out to be much less exciting than what he’d anticipated. Operating as a sort of “jack of all trades,” he acts as a courier, runs errands, brews tea, sweeps floors, and generally does anything needing doing at the Review offices. Still wide-eyed and a little naive, he has begged to shadow the crime reporters — Especially the famous Hugo Noble — but thus far no one has accepted his offer.