**The ingenious alternate history of The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire trilogy presented in a single volume, to delight the mind and the heart. Containing _The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter_ , _Unseemly Science_ and _The Custodian of Marvels_ , complete with appendices.** Elizabeth Barnabus lives a doubl
The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire Boxed Set: box set
β Scribed by Rod Duncan
- Publisher
- Watkins Media;Angry Robot
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 512 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The ingenious alternate history of The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire trilogy presented in a single volume, to delight the mind and the heart. Containing The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter , Unseemly Science and The Custodian of Marvels , complete with appendices.
Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life - as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus. But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better...
Witnessing the brutal hanging of someone very close to her, Elizabeth resolves to throw the Bullet Catcher's Handbook into the fire, and forget her past. If only it were that easy! There is a new charitable organisation in town, run by some...
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