The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (Burton & Swinburne #1)
Mark Hodder
3.72 · 18 ratings · Published: 27 Mar 2010
Sir Richard Francis Burton—explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead.
Algernon Charles Swinburne—unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade; for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin!
They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor; Libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity; while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behavior to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End.
Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!
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The 'Burton & Swinburne' series
80 ratings 3.88 ·- The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder Book #1
- The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by Mark Hodder Book #2
- Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon by Mark Hodder Book #3
- The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi by Mark Hodder Book #4
- The Return of the Discontinued Man by Mark Hodder Book #5
- The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats by Mark Hodder Book #6
- Burton & Swinburne: The Mystery of the Empty Bay by Mark Hodder Book #7
- Burton & Swinburne: The Disaster at Dale Dyke by Mark Hodder Book #8
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