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- Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroydstandalone novel1985
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Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches. Hawksmoor has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel and an example of postmodernism.
- Carnacki
universe102 books1909
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The card arrives without preamble: dinner at 472 Cheyne Walk, and afterward the tale. Thomas Carnacki explains nothing until his four friends are fed and settled by the fire — then, pipe lit, he recounts the thing he has just come back from, and at the last word turns them out into the Embankment dark with a curt "Out you go!" This is the world of the Ghost-Finder: an Edwardian London where a haunting is a case to be worked, and the man who works it trusts neither the credulous nor the smug. William Hope Hodgson raised Carnacki in a slim sheaf of stories — "The Gateway of the Monster," "The Whistling Room," "The Horse of the Invisible" and their fellows, gathered in 1913 and rounded out to nine. Each is a siege: Carnacki barricades himself inside a defended circle, half medieval and half modern — chalk, garlic, water-drawn pentacles and the glass tubes of his own Electric Pentacle humming against the dark — and consults the crumbling Sigsand Manuscript for a rite that may or may not hold. A century on, other hands keep the Chelsea rooms lit: William Meikle, the team of Chico Kidd and Rick Kennett, and editors such as John Linwood Grant, Robert M. Price and Sam Gafford send him after horrors Hodgson never named. What sets the cases apart is Carnacki's refusal to decide in advance. A whistling room may prove a swindle with a trick of plumbing behind it, or a genuine intrusion of the "ab-natural" pressing at the pentacle till the light fails — and until the last page neither he nor you can say which. Begin at the source: read Hodgson's 1913 collection in its own order, "The Gateway of the Monster" first. The later homages are a loose fraternity with no fixed sequence; take them up afterward, as the dark permits.
- On Her Majesty's Psychic Service
series1 book2015
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- The Adventures of Dr. Caspian and Bronwen
series4 books1976
completed
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- Shades of London
series4 books2011
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- Penelope Tredwell Mysteries
series3 books2012
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- Vurt
series4 books1993
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In Jeff Noon's alternate Manchester, an entire subculture has formed around Vurt: a hallucinogenic, colour-coded feather that plunges users into a shared alternate reality as vivid and dangerous as real life. Vurt follows Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, on a search for his sister, lost somewhere inside a Vurt trip gone catastrophically wrong. The sequel Pollen continues directly from its fallout, while Noon's other novels of the period, including Automated Alice and Nymphomation, circle the same fevered, drug-soaked version of the city.
- Newbury & Hobbes Investigations
series23 books2008
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George Mann's steampunk series follows Sir Maurice Newbury, an occult investigator working for the crown in an alternate, more mechanized Victorian Britain, and his assistant Veronica Hobbes, as they take on cases blending supernatural threats with the era's mechanical marvels. The Affinity Bridge, the opening novel, entangles them with a crashed automaton airship and a spreading plague of the reanimated; later books deepen Newbury's struggle with addiction and Veronica's search for her institutionalized sister. It combines detective procedural with alternate-history steampunk London.
- Houses of Stone
Barbara Michaelsstandalone novel1993
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It is a find of inestimable value for Karen Holloway. The battered manuscript she holds in her hand—written in the nineteenth century and bearing the mysterious attribution "Ismene"—could prove a boon to the eager young English professor's career. But Karen's search for the author's true identity is carrying her into the gray shadows of the past, to places fraught with danger and terror. For the deeper she delves into Ismene's strange tale of gothic horror, the more she is haunted by the suspicion that the long-dead author was writing the truth . . . and that even now she is guiding Karen's investigation, leading her to terrible secrets hidden behind the cold walls of houses of stone.
- Necropolis
Basil Copperstandalone novel1980
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Amazon: Set in an alternate Victorian London, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are not just fictional characters, Basil Copper's Necropolis (1980) is a tale of mystery and intrigue worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle or Wilkie Collins. Private detective Clyde Beatty, a rival of the great Holmes, has been hired by the lovely Angela Meredith to inquire into her father's suspicious death. As Beatty's investigation unfolds, the danger intensifies: more murders ensue, and attempts are made on his life. It is clear there is more to Mr. Meredith's death than meets the eye, and it may have something to do with the brazen robbery of a fortune in gold bullion. The clues lead Beatty to the eerie Brookwood Cemetery, where fatal secrets lie hidden in the catacombs beneath a city of the dead....
- Merrily Watkins
series16 books1998
completed
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- Sally Lockhart
series4 books1985
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Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart quartet follows a resourceful, unconventional heroine navigating Victorian London - a sharpshooting, mathematically gifted young orphan who builds an improbable career as a financial consultant against the era's expectations for women. The Ruby in the Smoke opens with Sally investigating her father's death and a mysterious jewel; the following novels widen out into fraud, opium-trade crime, and international intrigue, tracking Sally's evolving relationships, including with the journalist Daniel Goldberg, across four Victorian-set mysteries.
- Fire, Burn!
John Dickson Carrstandalone novel1957
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Fire, Burn! is a 1957 historical mystery novel by John Dickson Carr. Carr considered this one of his best impossible crime novels.
- The Bedlam Detective
Stephen Gallagherstandalone novel2012
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"Sebastian Becker, a former policeman and Pinkerton agent who now works as the special investigator to the Masters of Lunacy, looking into cases involving any man of property whose sanity is under question. His latest assignment takes him to the small town of Arnmouth to determine whether Sir Owain Lancaster has gone around the bend."--Provided by publisher.
- Jackaby
series5 books2014
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- The Green Eyes of Bast
Sax Rohmerstandalone novel1920
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Psychic investigator Dr. Damar Greefe encounters ancient sorcery and a cult whose leader is possessed by the murderous cat-goddess Bast!
- Fata Morgana
William Kotzwinklestandalone novel1977
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From the flaps of the Knopf first edition: "In Fata Morgana a celebrated novelist turns conjurer to bring us a supremely theatrical magic show - a rich exotic entertainment of crime, treble-trickery, and legerdermain, with Europe as its stage and the golden leaders of the Uppercrust and the Underworld as its players. The time and place are Paris, 1861 - the extravagant capital of Louis Napoleon and his Empress Eugenie, the gaudy, blatant public arena of Great Whores and fabulous charlatans; the treacherous private labyrinth of Police Inspector Paul Picard and the human prey he stalks. Picard is a hunter of the purest instincts, with an appetite for the ladies, a taste for lemon tarts, and a policeman's nose for hard realities. As the book opens he is on his way to the Opera, for music and murder: among the guests is as elegant a killer as ever sliced his way through Parisian high society, and on his arm is the young woman he means to decapitate tonight. A strange encounter with them precipitates Picard into a new and (apparently) trivial assignment - a case that is fated to disrupt and then transform, irrevocably, his life. At first it seems routine: a man - Ric Lazare - has recently arrived in Paris and in a short time has captured the jaded attention and the favors of the entire city. His aura of opulence, his bewitching wife, Rene, and, above all, his unearthly fortune-telling machine have won him entree to the salons (and the bank vaults) of the most dazzling leaders of society, including, it is whispered, the Emperor himself. But, who - and what - is Lazare? Is he a crook? A master of illusions? A real magician? Or - more terrible - a reincarnation from an Older World? To find the answer, Picard must follow the thread of the man's past. His quest takes him from Paris to Vienna, Nuremberg, Budapest, and on to the dark, menacing valleys and steppes of eastern Hungary, uncovering a trail of deceit and violent death: a fabled toy maker driven to destroy himself and a lifetime's priceless creations... a man ruthlessly killed over a dice game... a beautiful woman purchased at auction, then stolen away... the sudden death of a priest. Beset by intimations of his own mortality, by a sense of inexplicable entrapment in a malign world of mechanical and deadly playthings, by a slowly suffocating conviction that he is undertaking a journey he has made before, Picard, caught up in the quickening pace, returns to Paris - and to a terrifying confrontation with his quarry and his own destiny."
- The Seance
John Harwoodstandalone novel2008
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The Seance is a 2008 horror novel by John Harwood. Set in late 19th century London, it follows the story of Constance Langton who in an attempt to make her mother healthy again takes her to a séance only to result in tragic consequences. The Seance won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best horror novel.
- The Ghost Series
series12 books2003
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