The Gobblin' Society
A Langdon St. Ives Adventure
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Publisher Description
“…[A] twisted but delightful fantasy tale... Mystery, mesmerism, murder, and mayhem combine into a jolly good time. Blaylock’s fans will be gratified.” —Publishers Weekly
When coffins bearing what might be living corpses are discovered in a sea cave long used by smugglers, Langdon St. Ives and his wife Alice are precipitated into a hellish mystery involving an ages-old house standing on the chalk cliffs of the Kentish coast. The strange house, shunned by the people Broadstairs and Margate, caters to a century-old eating society that offers a secret catalogue of corpses for sale and a menu for wealthy members with… eccentric tastes. When the society sets out to entrap St. Ives, an onrushing adventure ensues as Alice and the formidable Frobishers fight for their lives—an adventure that seems to ensure a deadly ending.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Blaylock's Victorian adventurer Langdon St. Ives returns (after his last appearance in River's Edge) in this twisted but delightful fantasy tale. Langdon's wife, Alice, inherits her uncle's home in a quiet British seaside town only to discover that the house, which was thought to be empty, is occupied by her eccentric and unscrupulous cousin, Collier, who allows the property to be used by a mysterious "eating club," the Gobblin' Society. Langdon and Alice's adopted son, Finn, investigates Collier's strange behavior, discovering that Collier and the Gobblin' Society use the property to access a cave which leads out to the ocean. When Finn finds one of the society's disturbing shipments in the cave waiting to be smuggled out, he and his parents come to understand the Gobblin' Society's gruesome secret and realize that they are in mortal danger. Mystery, mesmerism, murder, and mayhem combine into a jolly good time. Blaylock's fans will be gratified.
