Grind - Victorian slang for sex Grind - Daily toil Victorian London, the world's first metropolis, offered brand new opportunities: you could hide in plain sight or reinvent yourself. Murder is for hire in a street inhabited by the 'semi-literate and criminal', a place regarded as the worst in London. Mary and Liza are best friends who live on the street; one on her way up, the other down. When one of them is marked as a candidate for the assassin's...