The bullet-catcher's daughter being volume one of the fall of the gas-lit empire
"Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life--as herself and as her brother, a 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 u...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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NY :
Angry Robot/Osprey,
2014.
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| Series: | Fall of the gas-lit empire ;
01 |
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| Summary: | "Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life--as herself and as her brother, a 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...."--from cover, p. [4]. |
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| Physical Description: | 373 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780857665300 0857665308 |
| Author Notes: | Some might say that he is obsessed with boundary markers, naive 18th Century gravestones and forming friendships with crows. But he says he is interested in the way things change. gaslitempire.co.uk twitter.com/rodduncan Author hometown: Leicester, UK |
