- Intelligence service, Steampunk fiction, Secret societies, Murder
"These are dark days indeed in Victoria's England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences--the Crown's clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling--will not allow its agents to investigate.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Pip Ballantine
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 409
- Publisher
- Harper, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper Voyager
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062049773
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