The Turquoise Spider
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Publisher Description
Elizabeth Hunter-Payne is an adventurous widow with time on her hands -- a dangerous combination in Victorian London of 1859. Seeking excitement in a time of radical change, Elizabeth starts her own Investigation Bureau.
Armed with an inquisitive eye for detail, the capacity and boldness to ask obvious, if blunt, questions, and most importantly of all, her ability to keep her mouth shut, Elizabeth is quickly immersed in a case of kidnapping, smuggling, murder, and general mayhem. With guns blazing, steam-cars steaming, and clockwork automatons of a salacious nature going clickety-clack, can she save the son of a violent industrialist? Can she recover the priceless Turquoise Spider from the vicious clutches of underworld thugs behind one of Victorian London’s infamous Houses of Introductions?
The survival of the Empire may well depend on the fortitude, brazenness and deductive powers of the irrepressible Elizabeth Hunter-Payne.
Customer Reviews
Great steampunk mystery
Set in a steampunk version of Victorian England this is a very compelling detective story about a widow who defies convention and starts an Investigation Bureau with the help of her late husbands batman. Mikala Ash deftly weaves together Victorian times and sensibilities with steampunk machines and a multi layered mystery. If I had any criticism I would say that it was too short but as it is labeled as book one we can only hope for more adventures of Elizabeth Hunter-Payne.
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