What is there about the photograph of a street from a bygone era that so obsesses the otherwise mild-mannered John Braid?  Why does he conceal his true profession from his newly-wed wife?  And what, if any, connection is there with the “Acid Bath Murderer” who has already taken six lives?  And why does a tale from the past show such eerie similarities to what is happening in the present?  The Picture from the Past is the ninth Paul Halter novel to be published in English by Locked Room International, and among the most complex with its parallel narratives where nothing can be trusted…