Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city
teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new
era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in
the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the
streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial
tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists. But beneath
this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. For this is also a
world where lycanthropy is a rampant disease that plagues the dirty
whorehouses of Whitechapel, where poltergeist infestations create havoc
in old country seats, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where
nobody ever goes near the Natural History Museum.
Sir Maurice Newbury,
Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, imagines life can be a little
quieter from now on after his dual success in solving The Affinity
Bridge affair. But he hasn't banked on his villainous predecessor,
Knox, hell bent on achieving immortality, not to mention a secret agent
who isn't quite as he seems...
So continues an adventure quite unlike
any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the second in the series
of Newbury & Hobbes investigations.
