Newbury & Hobbes Investigations (Hardcover): The Affinity Bridge (Hardcover)

from gavreads

There are a few things going on with The Affinity Bridge. It's a page-turner, a detective story, it features Queen Victoria, it has spies, and it's steampunk to name but a few of them. It's quite a pot that George Mann is throwing ideas into.It could be a mess and a bad pastiche of steampunk-Cola...

from AHS-Wolfy

Sir Maurice Newbury works for the British Museum in the anthropology department specialising in religion and supernatural practices of prehistoric human cultures. At least that's what he does on the surface as he's also one of Queen Victoria's special agents who, along with Miss Veronica Hobbes h...

from tigerb

I rather liked it. Sort of a slightly pulpy page-turner that owes a lot to Sherlock Holmes, and it didn't really need zombies. Also, toward the end, the book is packed with action sequences, almost as if the author suddenly realized that the book was short a few.Oddly enough, it was very small th...

from titania86

Victorian England is in turmoil. Revenants, undead creatures, prowl the night and spread their sickness to unsuspecting citizens. Also, a supposed ghost of a murdered police man has been strangling passersby in White Chapel. Many have died so far and there are no witnesses or leads. Sir Maurice N...

from AnnieMod

Welcome in the English Empire of 1901. Victoria is still ruling and at first glance it looks like our very mundane English Empire. Except that there are airships and automatons that are able to carry any predefines tasks - from serving drinks to piloting the airships and copying texts. The Prolog...