![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s kinda sorta set in the Victorian era and features many historical figures who are misused to serve the author’s evil purposes. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack Mark Hodder Prometheus Books, 2010 - Fiction - 373 pages 39 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. 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. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack is the first book in a steampunk series called Burton & Swinburne. ![]() 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. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman his reputation tarnished his career in tatters his former partner missing and probably dead. The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack is a steampunk novel by British writer Mark Hodder, the first novel in the Burton & Swinburne series it won the 2010 Philip K. ![]()
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