Camera Obscura

Authors: Tidhar, Lavie
Publisher: Watkins Media
BISAC/Subject: FIC009030, FIC028060, FIC028010
ISBN: 9780857666017, Related ISBNs: 0857660942, 0857666002, 0857666010, 9780857660947, 9780857666000
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 416,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: CAN'T FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION TO A MYSTERY? CALL IN THE QUIET COUNCIL. The mysterious and glamorous Lady De Winter is one of their most valuable agents. A despicable murder inside a locked and bolted room on the Rue Morgue in Paris is just the start. This whirlwind adventure will take Milady to the highest and lowest parts of that great city - and cause her to question the very nature of reality itself.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it – for the first time, also includes "Titanic", a short story from the Lost Files of the Bookman Histories.

File Under: Steampunk [ Alternate History | Reptilian Royalty | Murder Most Foul | The World's Fair ]
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